Screwed up permissions?

I typed up a few things into Notepad. I click File, Save As and attempted to save this file into a folder I created in Documents. I am giving the error message below. The file continues to be created though but its empty. If I try to save it a second time in the same place it ask if I want to overwrite the exiting file, I click yes and this time it saves the actual document without error.

I noticed the same kind of issue if the folder you are saving to is owned by >nobody.

bob

Correct you need to ensure that the folder you are saving to is owned by you or that you have permissions to save to that folder.

I have a similar problem. I have WinXP & Win7 installed on two diff drives and all my data on the third drive. I went on to Win Media Center and added my music folders off the third drive; now one of them is inaccessible after rebooting. It just says "You don't currently have permission to access this folder Click Continue to permanantly get access to this folder" and when I click continue it says You have been denied access to this folder. I think it has something to do with the UAC. The funny part is that I'm the only user and administrator. I read the help and it says I could turn off UAC and it would require me to reboot; although not sure that's the best choice. This drive/folder is not accessible in WinXP either!
PLEASE HELP HELP HELP

i have a similar problem, for some reason i cant delete files (on a third drive too). and i keep getting a permission message..

Same problem...

I really do hope somebody comes up with a solution. As me being the same user/owner cannot access my own files. And that too in my backup folder/drive. Unimaginable that a backup can get messed up. How many hard disks are we to have to succumb to windows problems!

As iroken stated,

you need to check the ownership of the hdd. your moving a hdd from a perivous OS ex: XP. W7 doesn't recongize the permissions correctly on the drive. just re-take the ownership and apply it to all folders and sub-folders. You have to do apart of the administrators group to do this.

Originally Posted by shade45

As iroken stated,

you need to check the ownership of the hdd. your moving a hdd from a perivous OS ex: XP. W7 doesn't recongize the permissions correctly on the drive. just re-take the ownership and apply it to all folders and sub-folders. You have to do apart of the administrators group to do this.

How do we do that exactly?

Ubuntu? lmao.