I have a strange issue with one of my hard drives and its attributes.
OK, let me back up a bit I am running Windows 7 and have a removable hard drive that contains a back up of movies that I have on my system. Each movie is in a subdirectory, within this drive there are over 1000 movies stored here and they all are listed as Read Only Files in addition the directory containing these files is now locked by Windows.
The hard drive slides into a hotswap tray for easy access and removal.
Some how, some where all of the subdirectories and files have become read only files, I tried using the attrib command but have now made things worse so have stopped and am asking for help!
One final thing when I was originally looking at the properties of the movie subdirectory they where listed as owned by a owner not ususal to the system.
The movies within this drive are still viewable at this point. I want to use a sync product to maintain the backups in the future.
Thoughts please.
Do you have a HDD to make a backup of this? There are several options, for instance If the HDD is failing you could boot into a Live Linux environment to transfer the files safely "stripping" file permissions onto another drive...
I recently saved data from a drive with similar issues...
Thank you for the reply, first off my hard drive is fine, it is a new 4TB WD hard drive.
Upon further investigation I may have found the source of the issue?
Let me regress a bit.
The movies exsist on a FreeNas server with 3- 2TB WD Red Drives running RAIDZ (RAID-5).
I have the external drive as an ultimate back up to protect against a RAID failure that is not RAID recoverable.
As mentioned I have now just discovered that the movies on my server are read only as well so when I used
FreeSync to move them across to the back up drive it copied the attributes.
I cannot use FreeSync to update the data base as the files are tagged read only on the BU drive so that is an issue.
I have on my server another folder where I maintain my TV series that I have wanted to keep however unlike the
movies they are NOT read only. Strange!
I am not sure if I need to ask this on the FreeNas forum? I prefer comming here for assistance as the support is better.
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Honestly seems like changing file permissions to me, Let me do some digging maybe find out why the file permissions got changed somehow...
Have made some progress I have managed to remove the READ Only access to the movies.
The issue with FreeFileSync remains, when I try to Sycn two directories I get the following error message:
Cannot open directory "H:\Movies\300 Rise of an Empire (2014)". Error Code 5: Access is denied. (openDir)
This error indicates the file is open but I have not opened it, thoughts?
I have found the solution, it was a Windows permission and sharing issue!