It is particularly perverse that I am asking this question as I was just discussing it with someone else the other day.
Here is the scenario. I have two machines, a brand new one just set up running Windows 10, as well as another that has been running Windows 10 for several years. In times long past, it used to be a cinch to pull the drive from "old machine" then connect it to "new machine" either as an external drive using a USB cable/enclosure or as a secondary internal drive on a desktop. You instantly had access to all of the files, folders, etc., on that drive. Very much like one has on thumb drives to this day.
Move forward and as security has become more important this is no longer the case. Let's say the old machine's drive is connected and known as the K drive. When you first try to access K:\Users\{insert specific user folder here} you get a warning that you don't have permission to do so and asking if you want to grant yourself permission (and this presumes an account with admin permissions is logged in on new machine).
In the past, if I answered that I did want to grant myself permission a process kicked off where Windows spun through the drive and gave said permissions to the account I'm using on all files and folders under K:\Users\{insert specific user folder here}. A green progress ribbon would appear in the address bar and after that had spanned the bar, it disappeared and the permissions to open/read/write were in place.
Now I have run into several instances, including one today, where that is not the case. On attempting to open K:\Users\{insert specific user folder here} the same message about not having permissions, and asking if I'd like to have them granted, comes up again.
Is there some ministration that I should be doing before trying to open that folder, or something that I should NOT do before trying to open that folder, that would prevent this endless permissions circle from occurring at all?
Also, what's the fix? I know there is one, and I've used it, but I'm somehow not coming up with the right "magic search terms" to pull up anything I remember doing.
Thanks much in advance for the insights I am certain will be forthcoming.
Here is the scenario. I have two machines, a brand new one just set up running Windows 10, as well as another that has been running Windows 10 for several years. In times long past, it used to be a cinch to pull the drive from "old machine" then connect it to "new machine" either as an external drive using a USB cable/enclosure or as a secondary internal drive on a desktop. You instantly had access to all of the files, folders, etc., on that drive. Very much like one has on thumb drives to this day.
Move forward and as security has become more important this is no longer the case. Let's say the old machine's drive is connected and known as the K drive. When you first try to access K:\Users\{insert specific user folder here} you get a warning that you don't have permission to do so and asking if you want to grant yourself permission (and this presumes an account with admin permissions is logged in on new machine).
In the past, if I answered that I did want to grant myself permission a process kicked off where Windows spun through the drive and gave said permissions to the account I'm using on all files and folders under K:\Users\{insert specific user folder here}. A green progress ribbon would appear in the address bar and after that had spanned the bar, it disappeared and the permissions to open/read/write were in place.
Now I have run into several instances, including one today, where that is not the case. On attempting to open K:\Users\{insert specific user folder here} the same message about not having permissions, and asking if I'd like to have them granted, comes up again.
Is there some ministration that I should be doing before trying to open that folder, or something that I should NOT do before trying to open that folder, that would prevent this endless permissions circle from occurring at all?
Also, what's the fix? I know there is one, and I've used it, but I'm somehow not coming up with the right "magic search terms" to pull up anything I remember doing.
Thanks much in advance for the insights I am certain will be forthcoming.