Opening User Files (Admin Windows Server 2003)

So in a previous thread I said i would be taking a company off of a server because it is unnecessary and has given them more headaches than use. However, to make sure I have everything backed up I want to be able to pull the user files off of the server under what has been saved but cannot. Windows gives me an error saying it cannot open the folder to view the contents. These are the user's private folders from their computers stored on the server. Is there anyway to pull these files off?

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crrussell3

Make sure the account you are logged in as have ntfs rights to the files you are trying to copy off the server.

Also, you might want to look into using a utility like Robocopy in order to preserve acls so you don't have to recreate them on the new server.

Azret

crrussell3 wrote: »

Make sure the account you are logged in as have ntfs rights to the files you are trying to copy off the server.

Doesn't the administrator account have this by default?

Hyper-Me

Azret wrote: »

Doesn't the administrator account have this by default?

Generally, but not necessarily.

astorrs

Azret wrote: »

Doesn't the administrator account have this by default?

Not on roaming profile folders by default (which I assume these are). Take Ownership of the files/folders and replace the permissions; or take ownership and use a tool like subinacl to add full control permissions to the local administrators group while maintaining existing permissions.