Called avid tech: Uded up my only call:

Avid Reply:

Since your drive was ported over from another windows installation, probably XP,
I have found a workaround for this other then porting the data to a new drive,
it was forwarded by a microsoft technician, have not tested it myself but got good references.
We can't guarantee it works though. It would be best to contact Microsoft directly.

This is a common problem with files that you created from another
installation of Windows.

This has to do with the security settings that Windows XP applied to
these files. Since they were created from your user account in XP,
they do not apply to your user account in Vista, and so you are denied
access in some circumstances.

To fix this, you can follow these steps:

- Click Start
- Type: cmd
- Right-click cmd when it appears
- Click Run As Administrator
- Change location to the folder you need access to (e.g. cd e:\folder)
- Type: takeown /F . /R /A /D Y > NUL
- Type: icacls . /grant USEROI)(CI)(F) /L /T /Q
(Where USER is your username - you will only have access from your
XP and Vista machine in this case)
(Or, replace USER with Users if you want anyone [on any computer
your hard drive is plugged into] to have full access to these files)

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I tried to grant myself ownership and permisiond the old way Vista is different from xp.

Has anyone actually  done this?  This  I am findint ig hard to follow this fix.

I am copying 2 terabytes of datd file by file to try to get going.  It is getting very rediclus.

Paul Pitzel

Media compose 3.0 vista buisness 64 bit ( User since 1995)

Paul,

Could you tell us what problem you had that prompted this call? What version of Vista are you attempting to run?

You can also Right-Click on the folder, and choose Sharing.  From there, you should grant Full Control, and also, under Advanced. re-assign Administrators ownership.  Much easier than the command line approach.

BTW ... I now do this for every file or folder I bring to my system from an outside source.

The problems that  prompted me to call:

The avid is  giving me a disk access denied error. I am sure everyone has see this at one time or another.

I am hving conflicts in the pwoper way to grant myself owner rights to the HD's my work are stored in.

I went through  the  threds and tried to find this  issue http://community.avid.com/forums/p/63145/353768.aspx#353768

This looked very close to my problem.

I thought I'd actually call tec support for the first time in 13 years as a avid editor. It was a 30 second call.

I could use advise in  step by step guide to properly Get the avid to get permissions to the four SATA HD's

Does this help?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Paul P

History: Im a old stuborn user that like avid  products.

Moved over from HP xw8000 on  Xp Pro sp2.   To  quad core box vista buisness 64 bit.  The system works incredibly well and is  very snappy and responsive.  My clients  are threatining to move to fcp. I am hand copying most of the files  Some are still offline.  Just trying to get my credit back.

Thaks randall!!!

 I did try that but I will do that again. To make sure I was taking the  correct steps in getting things back online.

-Paul

Paul, please give tech support another call and ask to be escalated if you don't get your problem solved. If you still have trouble, email me privately and I will see what we can do.

HI,

I am still having problems and I will try to give tech support a call and ask to be escalated.  I'm using qualified workstations and operating systyems. Avid is the only thing on the box. 

I woudl love to email you and I will give you  a copy of the transaction.  I know there will be other people going through the same thing that would appreciate a guide.

- Paul Pitzel

When you assign "Full Control", and assign "Ownership" rights to Administrators (plural), are you doing this from the root level of the drive, i.e., the top-most folder, that contains your files?