I have a computer with a public profile (anyone in the house can use it) and a personal one, protected with password (I mean, I have to log in).
It's an old computer, I rarely use it, and it happens that I forgot the password...
With a live cd (a cd with OS that I can boot the computer) I managed to copy all the personal files (audio, video, images) from the unaccessible profile to a folder placed in the root drive.
Once I rebooted the computer and accessed the public profile I could finally see all the files from the personal profile in that folder placed in the root drive. However, almost all the files were unaccessible.
I can't open it cause the system (Windows) says I need admin priviledges to open it. ALMOST all the files. Not all of them.
Some pictures I can open, some audio I can listen... But most of them I can't even copy to another folder.
With the live cd again I copied a file from that folder in the root drive and pasted it into the desktop folder of the public profile.
Now I can open that file through the public profile, but when I tried to copy the full folder in the same way I still coudn't open the files in it.
Later I remembered the password, but them the files were no longer in its original place. I had moved it all to the root, and therefore even though I was logged as the user who had created all the files I still couldn't open most of it.
Once logged in the public profile I removed all the granted access from a file and then granted access back, from that public profile. I could make it work and now I can open that file just fine. But I can't do it to almost 50k files!!!
The way I see, if all I had was a file in the desktop of my personal profile, that now I had moved to the root drive, I could solve the problem by moving that file back to my desktop (but I had to do it with the live cd). Or I have to remove all the granted access to that file and then grant it back.
The problem is: I can't remember the original folder of all the files I had moved to the root drive neither I can keep removing and granting access file by file!
How can I undo all the mess I did?...
It's all in the same computer. It's all personal or public stuff, no copyrights involved. Like I said, I can't copy the files. It says I need admin privilege, but I am the admin of that profile, the only thing is I had moved the files from one folder to another bypassing the system (I moved the files while running the OS from the live CD).
It's an old computer, I rarely use it, and it happens that I forgot the password...
With a live cd (a cd with OS that I can boot the computer) I managed to copy all the personal files (audio, video, images) from the unaccessible profile to a folder placed in the root drive.
Once I rebooted the computer and accessed the public profile I could finally see all the files from the personal profile in that folder placed in the root drive. However, almost all the files were unaccessible.
I can't open it cause the system (Windows) says I need admin priviledges to open it. ALMOST all the files. Not all of them.
Some pictures I can open, some audio I can listen... But most of them I can't even copy to another folder.
With the live cd again I copied a file from that folder in the root drive and pasted it into the desktop folder of the public profile.
Now I can open that file through the public profile, but when I tried to copy the full folder in the same way I still coudn't open the files in it.
Later I remembered the password, but them the files were no longer in its original place. I had moved it all to the root, and therefore even though I was logged as the user who had created all the files I still couldn't open most of it.
Once logged in the public profile I removed all the granted access from a file and then granted access back, from that public profile. I could make it work and now I can open that file just fine. But I can't do it to almost 50k files!!!
The way I see, if all I had was a file in the desktop of my personal profile, that now I had moved to the root drive, I could solve the problem by moving that file back to my desktop (but I had to do it with the live cd). Or I have to remove all the granted access to that file and then grant it back.
The problem is: I can't remember the original folder of all the files I had moved to the root drive neither I can keep removing and granting access file by file!
How can I undo all the mess I did?...
It's all in the same computer. It's all personal or public stuff, no copyrights involved. Like I said, I can't copy the files. It says I need admin privilege, but I am the admin of that profile, the only thing is I had moved the files from one folder to another bypassing the system (I moved the files while running the OS from the live CD).
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