Access denied errors

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Backstory: I have a backup of my old AppData folder from before my reinstall made with EaseUS backup. I now find that the backup software will not restore the data (I'm waiting to hear from EaseUS) but I can mount it as a virtual drive. Unfortunately, the account and hence the ACLs on the files are all gone, so I need backup permissions or the ability to change ownership to access the old files. Can't do that on the virtual drive - EaseUS used to give us write permissions, but not any more, so I can't change the ownership or permissions on the files so I can read them.

I have discovered that I can access them using an administrative command line or an administrative powershell session. This is tedious. I've tried using Admin mode in dopus but nothing I do seems to give me the same look at the files as I have from the command line.

Any ideas?

2

Try running

takeown /f D:\*.* /r /d y
icacls D:\*.* /grant administrators:F /t

from an admin prompt (assuming your virtual drive is D:).

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Here are the results:

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Unfortunately, neither worked, but it was worth a try. Thanks.

4

That says the drive doesn't support permissions at all, and is read-only. The issue will be in how the drive is mounted, not in Opus itself. You'll likely get the same errors in all software that you try to do the same thing with.

5

Thanks, Leo. I pretty much assumed this was the case. The software used to be great but now it seems to have fallen apart.