Help! Major thanks in advance to any major geeks who step up and attempt to help I've seen a few Internet posts about this issue, which seems a recent development, but I have not seen anything explaining how to fix this issue. I had no issues freely copying them and manipulating them on the machine they were copied from, which was NOT the original machine where they were created or previously stored. I am simply not allowed to copy these files. Network copying is not really an option because the computer may have a latent virus infection (END OF THREAD, RIGHT?) and I don't want to expose other computers by letting them share files. Using a DVD is not desirable because it has to be formatted in FAT32 or some ANSI or other file format that won't accept the metadata for the files, which I absolutely need to preserve. Reassigning ownership of the files to the currently logged in administrator account, or any other administrator account, including a newly created one, has no effect.ĭisabling user account control, either via the Control Panel or via editing the Registry, has no effect. I still cannot copy them from the intermediary.

Attempting to make this assignment on the source computer, and THEN copy the files to the intermediary disc, also does nothing. It is not possible to create a user with a name this long.įixing the permissions so that 'Everyone' has 'Full Control' has no effect. It applies to virtually all items - at least all of them that are native email files. 'You need permission to perform this action Windows keeps complaining that I need permission from a ghost user that does not exist on any machine or network device or service in order to copy the files. I'm trying to copy files from an NTFS thumb drive.

You need permission from desktop