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File problems after moving folder from desktop to folder inside the C drive
Posted by Mark on November 8th, 2005


Hi,
For some reason, when I moved a folder from the desktop to a folder in the C
drive I lost access to the folder. This is in Windows XP Professional.

I subsequently disabled simple file
sharing and gave full control to my login user which allowed me access to
the folder and all of its contents again. The problem is that the folder is
full of Word files of various sizes. If I try to open a file I get an error
message saying the path is invalid.

When I do a search for one of the files, I can see it only in the proper
folder and no where else on the drive and the search dialog box lists its
size as 64KB or some similar size. I am sure the path is the same as the
files I am having trouble accessing. If I double-click on the file in the
search dialog box I get the same error message indicting the path is
invalid.

Can anyone tell me what has happened and how to access the information they
should contain?

Thanks



Posted by Anne Troy on November 8th, 2005


What IS the path? Perhaps it is too long.
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"Mark" <new_booksNoSpam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:SvadncLJ2ZSnaO3eRVn-gg@adelphia.com...
> Hi,
> For some reason, when I moved a folder from the desktop to a folder in the
> C
> drive I lost access to the folder. This is in Windows XP Professional.
>
> I subsequently disabled simple file
> sharing and gave full control to my login user which allowed me access to
> the folder and all of its contents again. The problem is that the folder
> is
> full of Word files of various sizes. If I try to open a file I get an
> error
> message saying the path is invalid.
>
> When I do a search for one of the files, I can see it only in the proper
> folder and no where else on the drive and the search dialog box lists its
> size as 64KB or some similar size. I am sure the path is the same as the
> files I am having trouble accessing. If I double-click on the file in the
> search dialog box I get the same error message indicting the path is
> invalid.
>
> Can anyone tell me what has happened and how to access the information
> they
> should contain?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>



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