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delete an "access is denied" folder

Anonymous
2009-12-02T22:36:16+00:00

cannot access my music folder on windows xp srvc. pk. 3 it says access is denied.  how to just permanently delete it from my system.  it is no longer needed

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-12-02T23:24:49+00:00

    Jill,

    Give yourself permission to the folder and then delete.

    To resolve this issue, you must turn off Simple File Sharing, and then take ownership of the folder:

    1. Turn off Simple File Sharing:<br><br><br><br><br> a. Click<br>Start , and then click My Computer . <br> --- --- <br> b. On the<br>Tools menu, click Folder Options , and then click the<br>View tab. <br> c. Under<br>Advanced Settings , click to clear the **Use simple file sharing (Recommended)**check box, and then click OK .
    2. Right-click the<br>folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties .
    3. Click the<br>Security tab, and then click OK on the Security message, if one appears.
    4. Click<br>Advanced , and then click the Owner tab.
    5. In the<br>Name list, click your user name, Administrator <br>if you are logged in as Administrator, or click the Administrators <br>group. <br><br> <br><br>If you want to take ownership of the contents of that folder, click to select the<br>Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.
    6. Click<br>OK . <br><br> <br><br>You may receive the following error message, where Folder<br>is the name of the folder that you want to take ownership of:<br><br><br><br>You do not have permission to read the contents of directory<br>Folder . Do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you Full Control? All permissions will be replaced if you press Yes.
    7. Click<br>Yes .
    8. Click<br>OK , and then reapply the permissions and security settings that you want for the<br>folder and the folder contents.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-20T20:30:08+00:00

    I'm on Windows XP Home and I cannot see the Use simple file sharingoption in the location specified.

    Also, there is no security tab when I go to properties. Hence I am unable to perform the further tasks. Help!

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-12-12T13:48:21+00:00

    Hi Lisa. Afraid I have a similar problem to Jill62281 but in my case the folders aren't music-related, they're copies of system-related ones left over from an old 70 GB HDD I tried to copy. I salvaged this drive from a computer that recently died and installed it as a second drive in another computer (both machines run XP sp3). All the 60GB of data is intact and accessible, but I want to copy it over to my main C: drive which has tons of room so I can replace the old one with a larger drive.

    I tried to copy the contents into a new folder on my desktop but a few files yielded "access denied" errors. Then when I then tried to delete the desktop folder I got the same problem with a few of those files.

    Any suggestions on how to get full access so I can copy everything off the old drive plus get rid of the desktop folder (if I use a different target location) or overwrite it?

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-12-04T19:44:39+00:00

    I’m glad I could help!

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-12-03T22:16:24+00:00

    Hi Lisa

    This got me out of a messy patch as I had ACCESS_DENIED on a 122GB drive that contained about 60GB of valuable data. Windows was not accessable on this drive and I used your method and I have now got acess to it all. WOW what a star. Regards Alan.

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