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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 3666347" data-attributes="member: 704">I am posting this from my laptop.  I am doing this because my primary computer decided to become non functional.  This has been the case for a few days.The broken computer option is being solved by the expedient of obtaining a new computer.  I also purchased an external hard drive enclosure in an effort to salvage the data on my hard drive.Good news:  My original hard drive is intact and readable.  I was able to connect the external drive enclosure to my laptop, and read / copy data off the drove.Bad news:  The data I most wanted to salvage is under the 'My Documents' folder.  Due to the way windows does local file accounts, everything under that drive is protected.  This means if you have a guest account on the computer, the guest cannot snoop through your private <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.  Apparantly, it also means that if you put the drive into an external enclosure and try to read it on another windows machine, the folder is unreadable.So, I need a way to change the access permissions on a folder on a drive in an external drive enclosure.  I have no idea how to do this.  I am a computer programmer, so I generally know what I am doing with computers.  But writing C++ code and defeating windows file access settings are entirely different skill sets.If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be appreciated.  Thanks.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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