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Locked folder to everyone on My Passport

Hi,

When trying to set up a password on my Photo’s folder on the hard drive I clicked to lock it to everybody thinking this meant everybody else but of course it means everybody including myself… Yes I know…Please stop laughing…

Anyway I have 10 years worth of Photos in that folder and I’d really like to get them back but when I bought the hard drive I was using a different laptop and desktop and do not have access to either.

I believe they are the administrators so cannot change the security settings.

Can anyone help please?

Libby

For Vista and Windows 7 search for Take Ownership and see if that will work.

Joe

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