I OWN YOU, PLAY DAMNIT

[hazliya]

So, my dad's trying to get his mp3s off of his old hard drive by putting it in the new tower, alongside the brand-new one. The computer accesses the hard drive just fine, and has no trouble opening everything but the mp3s. When he tries to play/copy/anything, he gets this message:



If it helps, he's running Windows 7 now.

Anyone know how to bypass this?

(and thanks for all the birthday wishes so far! =D)

Comments

[londo.livejournal.com]

Are you using an mp3 player that tries to rewrite the tag on open?

[aralna.livejournal.com]

A quick look says that dbpoweramp has some issues on 64-bit windows 7.

I didn't see this particular one, but it might be related.

From what I remember of the program, it might well try to write to the tag when it opens them. Does using plain old windows media player work?

[hazliya.livejournal.com]

Ignore that. I was just trying to use DB to get them out of mp3 format, but I get that message no matter what I use.

[crash-mccormick.livejournal.com]

That would be my guess as well from what I can see.

happy Bday anyhow. Looking forwards to the game.

[endlessgame.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! :)

[mindways]

Happy birthday!!!

(No ideas other than the one aralna floated above, alas.)

[darkoni]

Have you tried a bamboozle approach? It's a classic technique that involves files and transfers and all sorts of technical stuff that I can't even claim to understand. No?

It's possible your f-list isn't as smart as you think it is. The fact that I'm on it should be proof enough of that. ;)

Seriously though, I've got no freakin' clue what the problem is. Computers are so not my thing. I hope you had a good birthday, though.

[nyren.livejournal.com]

Huh. I don't know Windows 7, but I do know the annoyance that is Vista. That looks like your user doesn't have administrator access to the computer, preventing you from doing something that can alter the file.

Have you tried right-clicking and choosing "run as administrator" on your mp3 player, or just turning off the UAC (User Access Control)? I'm not sure where that is in 7, but in Vista, the UAC on/off switch is in Start -> Control Panel -> User Accounts.

Permissions?

[seishino.livejournal.com]

Can you take one of the MP3 files, right click->Properties->Security, and see what the permissions are for his regular login? I'm guessing somewhere in the transfer from his old computer, the administrator account has full permissions, but his particular login account does not.

If that is the problem, try selecting the folder that contains the file. Then go to Right Click->Properties->Security->Advanced(button)->Owner->Edit(button). Then select the login he usually uses, and click the checkbox for "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects." Click OK out of that mess of dialog boxes now cluttering your screen.

Let me know if that works for you.