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NTFS Weird problem

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:25 pm
by pilau
Hey guys.
Me and my father are trying to backup files from his WinXP Pro. laptop computer to our family PC.
We've managed to copy everything we needed, except for one folder.
That folders name, subfolders' names, and sub-files' names are all presented in a green text (instead of the default black font).
The drive they're on is set up using NTFS.
Now, the problem is, that we cannot perform any action on any of the files or folders, except from viewing the folders.
Not open the files, not copy and paste somwhere else, definitely not cut and paste. Everything returns a permission denied error. We can't even copy and paste the files to the desktop.
EDIT: We CAN, after testing this out, delete these files. What the hell is going on?
Any idea how to solve this NTFS menace?

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:53 pm
by JayBird
The green file names means that the files and folders are encrypted. right click file > properties > advanced.

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:22 pm
by pilau
I did do that. But no encryption is removed.

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:53 am
by AngusL
Do you have administrative rights? I'd assume that if the encryption was set by another user, you couldn't remove it without administrative rights?

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:43 am
by pilau
Good idea. I'll check that out. But I'm pretty sure though that the user has administrator privileges. Any other ideas?