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Unable to delete folder on NAS
I am a newbie at this but would very much appreciate some help. I am trying to delete (using Vista) an empty folder on my ReadyNAS. I get an error in Vista: "Destination Folder Access Denied - You n...
disney_cjd wrote:
I am obliviously doing something wrong. Please help!
The easiest thing to do (if you don't care why the files can't be deleted, you just want to delete them), is to connect to the share over CIFS as admin and delete the files.
If you want to know why you can't delete them, right click on a file that you can't delete, select Properties, and see who is the owner of the file and what the permissions are. Problems like these are usually caused by the file ownership or permissions.
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