Monday, August 17, 2015

WIndows 10 Unable to Save - User Folder Permission Issues

Possible issue on some upgrades to Windows 10 from Windows 7, 8 or 8.1
This was also on a new Dell PC, not a Windows 7 with a few years of baggage.

We have noticed users unable to save to their home folder after the upgrade or soon after. Cant guarantee the exact time of issue.

If email (Your PST file) is located in my documents, it might not open due to a permission issue.

Documents saved in the user document folder might open "READ ONLY".

If you reset permissions, logging off and logging back on might revert to the "READ ONLY ISSUE".

This might have a  "ONEDRIVE-ISSUE" ending to this story  as we searched around the net and did not find many solutions to this, but came across this post. 
This user did not need onedrive as he had an iPhone and was setup for iCloud.

What we did was take ownership of his files and  disabled one drive on start up.
You should see "SYSTEM" as the owner, we replaced with the user and inherent permissions. We can test and replace back to system of all is good in a day.

What we did see that was out of the ordinary, was the user was a member of a "HOMEGROUP" even though Home Groups were not enabled.


 
You should be just member of the administrators group.



If you get this permission error, you should also see a homegroup in users. We did not delete this group. We did remove the group form the user.




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