"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67_at_spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message 

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> On 27/08/2011 1:53 AM, John Wunderlich wrote:

>> You say that you are moving files into this shared folder.  When

>> files are _moved_ within the same disk volume, the files retain their

>> original file protections.  So if you move a file that was created in

>> an area where only you have permissions to it into a shared folder,

>> it will retain permissions for only you to access it.

>

> Not really, files are coming into this directory after being downloaded 

> from the Internet, but they didn't actually exist anywhere else within 

> this computer before they came to this directory.

>

> However, when I started having these problems, in order to test out the 

> problem, I did begin to copy in files into this folder from elsewhere, 

> both from remote locations and locally. However, the problem was already 

> present even before any new files were copied or moved in.

>

>> The simple solution is to "copy" a file into the shared folder

>> instead of "moving" it (drag it with the right mouse button instead

>> of the left button).  When copying the file, the copy will be

>> assigned the permissions of the containing folder which is probably

>> what you desire.

>

> None of the files had any unusual permissions beforehand, and neither did 

> this directory. Certainly nothing that would prevent them from even being 

> read. So whether it was copied in or moved in, should be irrelevant as 

> everything should be readable at the very least. And the fact that there 

> are some files in this directory that are readable is a sign of this.

>

> Yousuf Khan

I agree with JW's suggestion. I was having similar problems accessing files 

on my XP share from Win7 (didn't matter what type- pictures, zip files, 

executables, whatever), and found that if I downloaded my files to a 

temporary location and then copied them to my XP share, I could access them 

from Win7 with no problem. But if I downloaded them directly to the XP 

share, or moved them to the XP share, some files would produce error 

messages when trying to work with them from Win7. I still have the Send To 

powertoy installed on my XP machine, so that makes it very simple and easy 

to copy the files I want to share. Once I'm sure they're accessible from 

Win7, I delete them from the temporary location.

I agree with your last paragraph- I didn't see any unusual properties in 

these files, but the simple act of copying instead of moving made them 

readily accessible to both machines. Things that make you go huh. . .

Just my 2 cents worth :-)

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SC Tom