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General discussion

Hard Drive Permissions

Mar 20, 2011 2:28PM PDT

I have a hard drive with security and access permissions stricktly to me.
The problem is I can not save a copy of documents or files straight from the Internet to it. I can move them around in the computer and from anouther computer in my network that I am Administrator of, but not from Internet. I must save it to anouther drive then move it.
Without removing security can I change something to allow that?
When attempting the Save box displays "Drive is full".

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Use administrator rights
Mar 20, 2011 7:01PM PDT

Try to run your browser from admins account. That helps

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This happens in all browsers?
Mar 20, 2011 7:04PM PDT

That is: you tried Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome and they all give this message?

Kees

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Hapens in all browers
Mar 21, 2011 1:43AM PDT

Yes!
I am THE administrator.

One thing I forgot to mention is that I had this drive full of music prior to useing as security drive and had transfered them to anouther drive using EASEUS.

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What happens if you format that drive ...
Mar 21, 2011 3:09AM PDT

so it's totally empty and lost all it knows about its history?

Kees

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Format drive?
Mar 21, 2011 1:21PM PDT

We are not going to do that! At least not until it is the last resort.

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Why not format a data drive?
Mar 21, 2011 6:03PM PDT

The contents are easily restored from your backup.

Kees

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Formating Drive over Permission issues
Mar 21, 2011 11:21PM PDT

I believe my problem is Permissions and am seeking a way to not reduce the permissions. If possible.