I know, oh no!!!! Not another one of these.
I have spent a good portion of the last 5 days researching hundreds of sites, reading thousands of threads, and barfing millions of time at what I was reading. Bottom line is that for some reason, MS thinks that I am too stupid to manage my own drive so they are preventing me from seeing things on it. Yes, I know about the shortcuts, joints, pointers, etc, etc, etc...ad nauseum.
I have a simple problem that I seem not to be able to solve.
There are certain folders that reside on the C drive that houses the OS that are not visible NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, no matter how you change ownerships, no matter how you allow or deny, or no matter how you just about do anything, including using the "Take Ownership" process.
Here is a classic example. I use both Firefox and Thunderbird. There are certain files that reside on the drive that the only way to access them is using the %APPDATA% command which opens the roaming window which allows you to access data that used to be stored in the common files, specifically the Application Data in Win XP. Yes, I know that this is not XP, its a whole new OS and things are different.
So using the Start, Search, in the start menu and typing %APPDATA%, I get access to the Roaming window (BTW, it is now a shortcut on my desktop), I can gain access to some of these file (certainly not all of them) to check them out. Within these Firefox and Thunderbird folders that are only visible this way, there-in reside the profile files. These profile files have all the good stuff, like your bookmarks, passwords, mail boxes, mail messages, settings, etc, etc, etc.... and all that good historical stuff that you never want to loose, EVER! So of course, I want to make a back-up of them so that I always have the data available to me in case there is a nasty system crash so that I can recover these files. Now using Acronis True Image 2014, no matter what I do, I CAN NEVER FIND THESE FILES to back them up individually, so the only way that I can make a back up of them is the do a complete system backup, I think because I can never find them after the backup on the backup media. My bookmarks and mail files grow by leaps and bounds every day. System backups take time and eat up a lot of space on the storage HDD, even if you cycle and delete the old ones out. While I am still learning the Acronis software, I am still only set up to do a system back up once a week with incremental backups each day. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that these files are being backed up because I can not find them in the backup folders.:confused:
Why oh why did MS have to make things so complicated in Win 7 Pro (and other platforms I am sure.....).:mad:
Now let me say that these are not the only files that I want access to. I mean after all, it is MY computer but I am sure that you all have heard this a thousand times and that was the general consensus that I was getting as I was reading the over 22,000 threads dating back to 2009 on just this Win 7 forum alone. I can't tell you the hours and hours that I spent on the MS forums for an answer, with basically the only solution stated was to take ownership of all the files. Then having to take permission. That is a lot of taking ownership of/gaining permission to happen. BTW, even after taking ownership of the files, you still can not see them, find them, feel them. I feel like Tommy........:eek:
Is there not just a single simple command that I can use to take ownership of THE ENTIRE C DRIVE and EVERY FILE on it that allows me to see EVERYTHING on the C drive? Or how about just sharing ownership with the SYSTEM or whatever. It is pretty sad that I can not move documents or pictures in the My Document folder in Win XP to the My Document folder in Win 7 because I do not have ownership rights even though I own both files, both OS, both computers, both drives, ..... you get the picture.
Any help?
I have spent a good portion of the last 5 days researching hundreds of sites, reading thousands of threads, and barfing millions of time at what I was reading. Bottom line is that for some reason, MS thinks that I am too stupid to manage my own drive so they are preventing me from seeing things on it. Yes, I know about the shortcuts, joints, pointers, etc, etc, etc...ad nauseum.
I have a simple problem that I seem not to be able to solve.
There are certain folders that reside on the C drive that houses the OS that are not visible NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, no matter how you change ownerships, no matter how you allow or deny, or no matter how you just about do anything, including using the "Take Ownership" process.
Here is a classic example. I use both Firefox and Thunderbird. There are certain files that reside on the drive that the only way to access them is using the %APPDATA% command which opens the roaming window which allows you to access data that used to be stored in the common files, specifically the Application Data in Win XP. Yes, I know that this is not XP, its a whole new OS and things are different.
So using the Start, Search, in the start menu and typing %APPDATA%, I get access to the Roaming window (BTW, it is now a shortcut on my desktop), I can gain access to some of these file (certainly not all of them) to check them out. Within these Firefox and Thunderbird folders that are only visible this way, there-in reside the profile files. These profile files have all the good stuff, like your bookmarks, passwords, mail boxes, mail messages, settings, etc, etc, etc.... and all that good historical stuff that you never want to loose, EVER! So of course, I want to make a back-up of them so that I always have the data available to me in case there is a nasty system crash so that I can recover these files. Now using Acronis True Image 2014, no matter what I do, I CAN NEVER FIND THESE FILES to back them up individually, so the only way that I can make a back up of them is the do a complete system backup, I think because I can never find them after the backup on the backup media. My bookmarks and mail files grow by leaps and bounds every day. System backups take time and eat up a lot of space on the storage HDD, even if you cycle and delete the old ones out. While I am still learning the Acronis software, I am still only set up to do a system back up once a week with incremental backups each day. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that these files are being backed up because I can not find them in the backup folders.:confused:
Why oh why did MS have to make things so complicated in Win 7 Pro (and other platforms I am sure.....).:mad:
Now let me say that these are not the only files that I want access to. I mean after all, it is MY computer but I am sure that you all have heard this a thousand times and that was the general consensus that I was getting as I was reading the over 22,000 threads dating back to 2009 on just this Win 7 forum alone. I can't tell you the hours and hours that I spent on the MS forums for an answer, with basically the only solution stated was to take ownership of all the files. Then having to take permission. That is a lot of taking ownership of/gaining permission to happen. BTW, even after taking ownership of the files, you still can not see them, find them, feel them. I feel like Tommy........:eek:
Is there not just a single simple command that I can use to take ownership of THE ENTIRE C DRIVE and EVERY FILE on it that allows me to see EVERYTHING on the C drive? Or how about just sharing ownership with the SYSTEM or whatever. It is pretty sad that I can not move documents or pictures in the My Document folder in Win XP to the My Document folder in Win 7 because I do not have ownership rights even though I own both files, both OS, both computers, both drives, ..... you get the picture.
Any help?
