Re: New toy

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:29:56 -0400, "Allan Smith"
<guesswho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dave,

It isn't a problem, if you follow the rules.

And I'm really unhappy about the existence of "rules." Didn't used to be any.
Used to, if I said, "delete", it did. Now I hold my breath to see if it'll
really do it, or give me somesort of idiot error.

But secure is secure, and a
pain to attempt to circumvent, and that is as it should be.

Naw, it should, on _my_ computer, do exactly what I tell it to.

Each unique userid on each system has its own 'credentials' in the form of a
Security Cerrtificate.

Not sure I have _any_ security certificates on that laptop or this desktop. I'm
the only one that uses either of these computers. If there are any scurity
certificates on these computers, I sure didn't (intentionally) put them there.

Among other things, it contains the encryption key
for that userid on that system. If you have, and use, the same userid on
both systems, you can export the Security Certificate on each and import it
on the other. Each then has the credentials to use the files of the other.

Interesting. I'll have to search the net and find out about where these
security certificates might be found on my machine.

Unfortunately, what I'm finding on the net about certificates has to do with
accessing a server or being part of a network. Doesn't seem to say anything
about not being able to delete a file on your disk, or access a directory on
your own disk when you are using an admin account in the 1st place.

I'll probably, eventually, have to buy yet another computer book and read it
entirely in order to understand how the world has made computers even harder to
use.

Or, easier, just copy XP's Shared Documents folder to the drive,

The stuff I'm interested in is not in "shared documents", its in the program
files area. Eudora, for one, saves all my mail in the "Program Files"
directory tree, as well as having some games saving history files of my
gameplay, etc. there. My copy of Street Atlas, USA normally installs the map
in the Program Files are, but when I did that recently, I could then not save
changes to the map. Had to move it out of the program files area.

The garmin directory is on the external hard disk with, apparently, some sort
of prohibition of being accessed by anything but my laptop. When I get the
laptop back in here from the car, where I normally keep it, I'll have to fire
it up, attach the 750Gb disk, and delete this folder, which is all I really
want/need to do with it. Or maybe I'll get back into safe mode and make those
file and directory assignments be owned by "everyone" as well.

I've got backup files from my desktop and backup files from my laptop, and
have, in the past, used my backup program to transfer individual programs and
data between the computers this way. Lately, however, I've been running into
the laptop copy of the backup program not being able to read the backup file I
create when I save Eudora in it from the desktop. More file/directory
permissions nonsense. I have to put one or the other computers in safe mode,
"take ownership" of the file, and _then_ I can load it in my backup program to
"restore" it to the program files directory structure so I can use it and all
the e-mail in the files with it that I have on the desktop, on the laptop.

This transfer of the Eudora e-mail by using a backup program is something I've
been doing for years, but, now that they've went and changed everything to make
it more difficult it is... more difficult.

then rename
it to whatever you want. It will retain the necessary permissions to be
viewed by anyone/anywhere, and child objects (files and subfolders) placed
in it will inherit those permissions from the parent folder (even so, files
encrypted by EFS will not be viewable unless the encrypting system's
credentials, and thus its encryption key, are available).

Allan

Not sure what my computer is doing encrypting anything, anyway. I _definitely_
never asked it to, want it to, and would prohibit it from doing if I thought
there was a possibility it was doing so.
.

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