Hello All,
I had configured VSS6.0 on my PC to hold all .c programs and some important project documents. Recently, my PC had some problems and XP Prof version was reinstalled on the C drive. The VSS folder resides on the E drive. So, I reinstalled VSS 6.0 on the C drive and connected to the VSS folder. Now I face a problem. It so happens that the contents of some of the folders are not visible at all and when I do a right click on the folder, it gives a message abt me not having sufficient permissions to access the folder.
So, I login as administrator and try to set the permissions for myself thru the admin login. But it gives a message, "Error reading from file" and does not set any permissions.
The other persons who also have access to the VSS Db are also now unable to access it.
I have also tried to restore the backup of the VSS Db and take a login, but that has also resulted in the same situation. I tried running the analyze tool, but it does not give any analysis.
Is there something that can be done Since most of my code and dox are in the VSS and I do not have alternate access to them, life sure seems to be difficult for me as of now.
Help me pls asap.
Suj
VSS 6.0 - Error Reading from file.
soader
Look in Security tab of the folder properties. Press Advanced button and then open Owner tab. Select Administrators group (if you are in it) or your user in the list, check "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects" and press Apply.
After Owner is replaced you'll be able to reset all permissions on these objects.
ETSUGeek
Hello Roman,
When I take ownership of the files and folders with my id (with administrative access), I did not have any access issues. I tried opening couple of randomly chosen files and folders and I had no problems. But when I try to set permissions on the folders in the VSS tree structure, I have this problem. This thing is making me MAD...
Tried restoring on another PC but it has not worked.
The chkdsk also did not return any errors. Pls see the output below:
Since I uploaded most of my important files into VSS, I do not want to lose it anywez.
Any other suggestions are most welcome!!! SOS!!!
Mike for VB
Were you able to set owner to all the files you got the error message while you were doing it If you reset the owner were you able to reassign read/write permission to all the files and folders under the database location folder without getting the error
If you are accessing the database through the share then also make sure that share permissions allowing you read and write access. Have you tried copying the database to another computer and accessing it from there
Other things to try:
Try running chkdsk for the disk you have database on (chkdsk e:). Did you get any bad sectors on your HDD
Make sure you are running VSS 6.0d
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=a8494edb-2e89-4676-a16a-5c5477cb9713&DisplayLang=en
HumanPixel
You could try resetting file access rights on one folder at a time and then going to the folder it can’t reset rights on.
You could also try using filemon and process explorer from sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html
DaveDeath
This is strange. Are you sure you reset owner on all these files or perhaps it worked only for the top folder
Do you have any sort of antivirus program running on these computers
Could you get more info on one of the files you can’t reset access rights to
What are the files attributes (Read Only, System, Hidden, Encrypted, Compressed) Use File properties page and the attrib command line utility.
Who is the Current Owner
What are the access rights relative to your login account
Size of the file
Full path to the file and file name
Yesb2k
David Christie
I tried out the method mentioned above, by taking ownership of all the files & subfolders in the main folder, but it still gives the "error reading from file" error.
Any other suggestions