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Before I format my hard disk due to virus, I copy all important files to a CD-R. One of the file folder I had set securtiy before back up, and I copy all the files back to C: drive upon installing a fresh win 2000. I can view the folders content but can't open the file. HELP PLEASE.
If you are the administrator of the machine, right click on the file/folder, select properties. Then go to the security tab and give your account full access to that file.
But you know what.. NTFS file permissions wouldn't even copy over to CD as CD's are formatted with CDFS, which has no permissions. It is more likely the case that the file is corrupt, or you miscreated the permissions on the folder when you recreated it.
You might also want to try taking ownership of the entire folder before you try to change the permissions.
in addition to mohaughns post:
make sure that you are owner of that folder/file - this option is on the security tab as well, just click on the *advanced* button.
if you are trying to modify the folder/file, make sure it is not read-only.
hope this helps.
I am the administrator and I had check the property, everything seems okay. There are like 20 files in the folder, the files contained excel files, word, jpg files. The file size look okay to me. I can't even view the one on the CD. What else can I do?
are you getting any error messages?
do look at my earlier post and confirm that the administrator account indeed has full control over the files and make sure that you are the owner of the file.
Like somebody else asked, what kind of error message do you get? If you have checked the file permissions properly it sounds like the files are corrupted in some way that it is allowing them to be copied, but the program that opens them, office, is bombing out. Without knowing what kind of error you are receiving, that is really just a guess.Quote:
Originally posted here by cllsiu
I am the administrator and I had check the property, everything seems okay. There are like 20 files in the folder, the files contained excel files, word, jpg files. The file size look okay to me. I can't even view the one on the CD. What else can I do?
I had all the rights and permission already.
These are the error message I got:
Excel file: The file is not a recoqnizable format.
Word file: There is no error message, When I open it, its all little square.
JPG file: No error message, can't open it.
Please comment.
if you receive those error messages when attempting to open the files from your local disk and the CD....i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it sounds like your files did not burn properly and are corrupt.
When I burned, I use NERO to burned many folders together, and these two folders that I set security on are the only two un-viewable, the rest of the folders are okay. It doesn't seems to be corrupted. I think it has to be some other kind of security issue.
Please comment.
Jeb: On the bright side he said "Before I format my hard disk due to virus"..... If that's a fact then he's still ok..... If not..... Get the tissues.... ;)
cll: get them to a functional media and then try again....
don't really get your point. Can you please elaborate
cllsiu - I would say that ( for whatever reason ) the security on the folders meant that they became corrupted on burning them to CD. The Excel and Word responses would strongly suggest that the files are corrupted, rather than that there is a security issue on the restored files - particularly as you are unable to access the files on CD either.
I think Tiger Shark's point was that if you have not yet reformatted your drive, then you will still have the files. However, I think it is too late for this. There may be tools available to get your data back, but the files as you currently have them would seem to be gone.
cllsiu- There are no file permissions on the CDFS file system. When you copy files from an NTFS drive to a CD all of the NTFS permissions are lost. The same things happens if you copy NTFS files to any file system other than NTFS. It is possible that the permissions you had assigned caused the burn process not to work, but your files are definitely corrupted.
I have to ask this real quick just to be sure, have you installed word and excel since you reinstalled the system? I know it's a stupid question, but I have tried to open word files before then realized I haven't even installed word. But since the jpeg's don't work either along with everything else, I would have to go with most everyone and say that the files are corrupt.
Yes, I had installed Word as well as Excel. Is there any programs that fix corrupted files?
I had downloaded some programs that fix corrupted files and it doesn't work. Any other possibilities besides corrupted?
cllsiu- The data is gone. In most cases when a file is corrupted it cannot be repaired. There are certain instances where maybe just the header of the file gets screwed up and you can sometimes fix that type of problems. I would have to say that your data is gone.