I had to replace my main hard drive a month or so ago and so had to install Windows 7 again. All of my music and pictures and stuff were on my backup drive so I didn't lose anything. However, as I discovered yesterday, none of the music on my backup drive "belongs" to me according to Windows and things like iTunes and WMP won't play them.
Now, I see I can go to each individual song and add the rights back for this user, but I have over 2000 mp3s and it would take for fucking ever to click on each individual song like that. Can anyone suggest a way to speed up this process? I already took ownership of my 140 folders but I really don't want to have to do that again.
Unfortunately that requires clicking individually on all 2000 files. Is there a way to do this to multiple files at once?
edit: Okay fuck yes. I installed that registry hack just because I thought it would speed things up, but it actually changes permissions all the way down. I saw that site yesterday but they didn't make that clear. Thanks so much!
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To reclaim ownership follow the instructions here
http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to-take-ownership-grant-permissions-to-access-files-folder-in-windows-7.htm
edit: Okay fuck yes. I installed that registry hack just because I thought it would speed things up, but it actually changes permissions all the way down. I saw that site yesterday but they didn't make that clear. Thanks so much!