Question Cannot backup windows file

[ak12345]

https://imgur.com/a/vCxwNB2

I have a few files that I'm trying to back up.

I set up the permissions so that everyone has full control.

When I try to copy the file, I get the message "You'll need to provide administrator permission to copy this file". after clicking "continue", I get "File Access Denied" "You require permission from ... to make changes to this file"

Any idea how i can remove whatever black magic is keeping me from copying this file?

 

[USAFRet]

How did this file originally get to "D/black C drive/desktop"?

 

[ak12345]

How did this file originally get to "D/black C drive/desktop"?

this file and the other files that i'm having issues with were recorded in Pro Tools on a mac. they were copied to a usb drive, moved to my PC, then copied to an external hard drive for backup. But for some reason i can't copy them from the external hard drive to another external hard drive.

 

[USAFRet]

this file and the other files that i'm having issues with were recorded in Pro Tools on a mac. they were copied to a usb drive, moved to my PC, then copied to an external hard drive for backup. But for some reason i can't copy them from the external hard drive to another external hard drive.

OK, just regular copying.

Do they still exist on the PC, and not just on the external?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Any idea how i can remove whatever black magic is keeping me from copying this file?

Take ownership of the file.
Next to Owner - click change.

BTW - there's a lock icon on the file. It may be encrypted.

 

[ak12345]

Take ownership of the file.
Next to Owner - click change.

BTW - there's a lock icon on the file. It may be encrypted.

I doesn't matter who the owner is. I tried setting the owner to my user (confirmed by typing "whoami" in the windows command prompt), Administrator, and Everyone. I can close properties then go back in and confirm that the owner changed. When i try to copy the file everything is the same except the final error message updates the owner name, ex "You require permission from Everyone to make changes to this file.".

I can't play the wav file either.

 

[ak12345]

Take ownership of the file.
Next to Owner - click change.

BTW - there's a lock icon on the file. It may be encrypted.

i think it's an issue with the encryption and the error messages are wrong. that drive with that user died and was replaced, so i don't know if there is any way that i can decrypt.

https://imgur.com/a/CdR28AM

View: https://imgur.com/a/CdR28AM

 

[USAFRet]

After copying from the Mac, have any of these files ever worked in a Windows system?

 

[ak12345]

After copying from the Mac, have any of these files ever worked in a Windows system?

yes, they did work on my windows system.

I think what happened is that the secure encryption was somehow accidentally added to the files on my windows user account. i was still able to access the files since I was doing it all from the same pc/user account that had access to the encryption. a while ago, my hard drive died and i replaced it and reinstalled windows. from that point on, the file would no longer copy.

this is the first time that i'm really looking into it. i had thought that it was a permissions issue because of the deceiving error message. I'm looking it up, and unfortunately it seems like there is no way to decrypt the encrypted files. I'm hoping that I have a backup from before they were encrypted. 🤞