Change Permissions On Redirected MyDocuments Folder
Sep 22, 2015
I have a new install of Windows 10 and I created a separate partition to keep my data files on so I don't lose them when/if I do a fresh windows install.So I redirected the MyDocuments, Pictures etc folders from the system partition to the data partition. What I would like to do now is restrict access to those folders so that only the log in that they belong to can access them.
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Now when I go to change it back to default location I get "The folder can't be moved here, access denied"
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