Portable drive
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I've just plugged a portable drive into my PC and would like to sort out my files, OK i should have done it on XP or Kubuntu but I hadn't thought of the hassle i might have trying to rename folders or copy files on Vista. Is there a way of turning Nagging(tm) off for this drive. It's driving me crazy. Is there a way i could mount this drive to a subdir of my documents for instance so that it doesn't get these controls placed on it? Am i right that there's no way of running explorer in SuperUser mode? It seems that MS have introduced all the restrictions from Unix without giving you the tools - su sudo etc that make it workable in *nix. Thanks Russell
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I've just plugged a portable drive into my PC and would like to sort out my files, OK i should have done it on XP or Kubuntu but I hadn't thought of the hassle i might have trying to rename folders or copy files on Vista. Is there a way of turning Nagging(tm) off for this drive. It's driving me crazy. Is there a way i could mount this drive to a subdir of my documents for instance so that it doesn't get these controls placed on it? Am i right that there's no way of running explorer in SuperUser mode? It seems that MS have introduced all the restrictions from Unix without giving you the tools - su sudo etc that make it workable in *nix. Thanks Russell
In the end i downloaded an explorer replacement: Altap Salamander that I believe is a successor of XTREE gold. I can set this to run as administrator and do all the things that Explorer would let me do if it had a SuperUser mode. I wonder if I can compile Dolphin for Vista? Russell
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I've just plugged a portable drive into my PC and would like to sort out my files, OK i should have done it on XP or Kubuntu but I hadn't thought of the hassle i might have trying to rename folders or copy files on Vista. Is there a way of turning Nagging(tm) off for this drive. It's driving me crazy. Is there a way i could mount this drive to a subdir of my documents for instance so that it doesn't get these controls placed on it? Am i right that there's no way of running explorer in SuperUser mode? It seems that MS have introduced all the restrictions from Unix without giving you the tools - su sudo etc that make it workable in *nix. Thanks Russell
Right-click the drive, go into Properties, Security tab, click Advanced, add the Everyone group and allow it Full Control. Check the box to Replace Permission Entries On All Child Objects With Entries Shown Here That Apply To Child Objects. That'll rewrite all the ACLs on the drive. If you want slightly more security than that, add the local Users group instead. NTFS-formatted disks have never been portable between systems - the Security Identifiers (SIDs) are based on the machine's SID which is randomly generated by setup. When Explorer in Vista gets the inevitable Access Denied error it throws up a UAC prompt to confirm that you'd like to use your admin powers to take ownership of the object and then to edit the ACL, but it only does so for that one object and the one permission that was required. You can of course use FAT32 which has no security at all, but it has a 4GB limit on the size of a file.
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