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Ugh permissions problem

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  • Started 1 year ago by zouleous
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zouleous
Posts: 37

I'm having a problem with basic organization of my "Favorites" folder for IE. It won't let me move a folder to another folder. It looks to be a permissions issue so I tried to replace permissions on child objects for my "Favorites" folder. When I do it returns the following error:

An error occured while applying security information to:

-lists a folder within Favorites-

access is denied.
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It returns this error many times for several different folders within Favorites. I can only click ok or cancel for each instance. If I click cancel it returns a warning saying if I stop it from setting the permissions it will lead to inconsistancies for the security settings of that folder.

I am the owner and administrator. I've searched the net a good amount trying to figure this out and my head is about to explode. Hoping someone can lend some advice. Thanks in advance.

Posted 1 year ago #
 
Scott
Scott
Posts: 2290

Have you tried to change from the Menu Bar, Favorites> Organize Favorites?

(Please try to keep your head from exploding here, the less carnage the better.)

Posted 1 year ago #
 
michael
michael
Posts: 568

If nothing works, then there is an article here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto.....-in-vista/

Try that.

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Mike

Posted 1 year ago #
 
zouleous
Posts: 37

Yes I've tried using Organize Favorites, I've tried doing it from the menu itself, and I've tried doing it from the \user directory. Nothing works and now I seem to have screwed up the permissions so that IE7 doesn't even like it. I have no idea why, because I haven't done anything that would take away permissions. I've only done things to try to give full access on every folder of "Favorites" to myself.

Now for some reason when I try to use links within folders it's giving me an error saying the shortcut is invalid. *boggle*

Normally I'd blame this kind of odd behavior on some kind of virus, but it looks like it's something I created on my own. Also, I haven't had any kind of virus or spyware problems since I started using Vista.

Gonna try the link Michael posted when I get home from work. I'll check back here later. Thanks.

Posted 1 year ago #
 
zouleous
Posts: 37

Neat tool, but it didn't help me. Pretty sure I have ownership accross the board anyhow.

Posted 1 year ago #
 
zouleous
Posts: 37

Well I think I'm giving up. Something is messed up with the Favorites folder and I can't figure it out. I stored a copy of a backup for the Favorites Folder when I started having problems yesterday.

I had made a bunch of changes just moving links around to different folders and I was hoping I could just figure out the permissions problem so I wouldn't have to reorganize again. Plus I like figuring things out to help me better understand how they work. It bugs me when I can't figure things like this out, but I just can't see spending hours upon hours trying to understand a problem with something like this. If I felt it was more important maybe I would. Permissions problems have always bugged me, but I certainly understand them far better now than I have ever have.

Thanks for those who tried to help.

Posted 1 year ago #
 
Scott
Scott
Posts: 2290

For what it's worth, a little extra digging turned up other users with broken permissions in IE7.

One solved the issue by importing his favorites back into IE from a backup file, the other created new folders and manually moved each link. Both worked but the latter seems a bit tedious.

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