How to regain possession of the file on my Vista PC after that it has been hijacked by my Windows laptop, 8...

I plugged my external drive to backup on a laptop Windows8 and Windows8 cell phone apparently took possession of the file that I accessed from the external drive.  Now I can't access this file from my Vista PC.  He tells me that I don't have permission to access the file, even though my account is administrative and the file was written from Vista computer!

Help!  These are image files and as a photographer, I need to access the files on the hard drive on my Vista computer!

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I installed a new version of Windows and now I can't open a file.

This problem may occur because some of your user account information has changed, even though your user name and password have not changed. You may be able to solve the problem by taking possession of the record.

To take ownership of a folder

  1. Right click on the folder that you want to take control and then click Properties.

  2. Click the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the owner tab.

  3. Click on change.  If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  4. Click on the name of the person you want to give to the property.

  5. If you want that person to be the owner of the files and subfolders in this folder, select the Replace owner of subcontainers and objects to check.

  6. Click OK.

What help does not say, it is after taking possession, that you actually need to give yourself permissions to access the files. Use the permissions , rather than the owner above tab tab.

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