Major Problem - I locked my folder and can't get in it

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On my old computer I used a prog called Lock My Folders to protect some data I had.
I now have a new build so I installed LMF again but I can't get into the folder.
I put the hard drive back in my old machine and I can access the files.
Copying the files to another drive or USB device and I can't access the files on the new machine.

Lock My Folder must be some type of one click permissions program so does anybody know how I can do it manually?
I have tried but I'm getting nowhere.
 
Thanks but if I put the drive in my XP machine I can access the files.
The problem is that permissions have been taken over to my new Vista machine.
 
M0KUJ1N said:
Hmm it looks like it's probably doing some form of encryption on your data. My advice would be to put the disk in the original machine and unlock them using the software on there, or copy the files to a FAT32-formatted USB disk as http://www.downloadatoz.com/lock-my-folder/how-to-lock-folder.html says it cant lock files on FAT32 drives (I'm guessing the private key is getting stored in the NTFS stream and thus doesn't get transferred to FAT)

Good idea.

My problem is this permission here and I can't get rid of it -

permissions.jpg
 
SpinningMonkey said:
In the Owner window, select the user/group you just added, select Replace owner on subcontainers and objects and press OK.

I've been here so many times but I'd never clicked on that - EUREKA.

I can now stop the formatting of a 160 gig hard drive to FAT32 thats at 94%.

THANKYOU
 
stoofa said:
Of course what you should be doing at this point is realising just how easy it was for somebody to still get at your data despite you using something to stop people.
You should be asking how secure you want certain data to be...

That is a very good point but it was only my porn stash :D
 
M0KUJ1N said:
Good to hear you've regained access to your stash ;)

I had assumed you had already tried the Full Control/ Take Ownership trick as it was described in one of the earlier posts hence why I suggested looking into more exotic solutions ;)

I have a habit of skipping lines and you didn't write it in big bold writing there was a box I had to tick :)

Thanks
 
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