Rainer Scheppelmann
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:09:19 -0700
Hi Jason, > I spent a few days trying to navigate Windows using Explorer .. I even > download and tried DOPUS and some other Windows File Manager (I'm so > ashamed) that I can't remember the name of, but it just wasn't the > same. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like File Commander. > > I am seriously suffering a productivity issue here. Without FC/W I > have to crawl around Explorer, and it is so uncomfortable that I am > putting off things that I have to do.
This exactly echoes my sentiments! Probably all of ours, maybe except for the "humble" bit :) To the NTFS links problem I can only contribute some speculation. > Now that I have been co-erced down a path that sees me with Vista > 64-bit installed on my machine, I have hit a wall. FC/W doesn't > appear to follow down LINKS. For instance, "C:\Documents and > Settings" is no longer a folder, but a link to C:\Users and an attempt > to navigate to it gives me an "Access is denied. (5)" error message. I just read something I can't verify for the lack of a Vista machine; according to that blog - these links are there for backwards compatibilty (old apps with hardcoded "C:\Documents and Settings" path) - "everyone" is denied "browse" and "read" rights there, similar to "System Volume Information" (so despite being only NTFS links they apparently do have their own access control lists) - with "hide protected system files" enabled in folder options, the links themselves are hidden in Explorer -- the latter two in order not to confuse old apps like "treesize" so they don't count folders twice or even run in circles. ( Source (in German): http://blogs.technet.com/dmelanchthon/archive/2006/11/24/kein- zugriff-auf-verzeichnisse-unter-windows-vista.aspx ) So, all you might need to do is grant yourself browse and read rights for the links in question. Rainer _______________________________________________ Fc mailing list Fc@silk.apana.org.au http://silk.apana.org.au/mailman/listinfo/fc Bug Tracker: http://bugs.silk.apana.org.au/