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[goodcow]

So I RARed up three files (A PDF, DOC, and TXT file) with a password containing tax information to both print out, and work on my FAFSA renewal form at my parent's apartment.

They un-RARed fine to the desktop, but every file, even the Notepad file, won't let me open them, saying "Access Denied."

I rebooted, and still nothing. Trying to send a file to a friend on AIM to see if they could open it, and then possibly re-send it, I get:

"The specified file cannot be opened for shared read access. It may already be opened for exclusive access by a word processor, spreadsheet, or another application. Please close the file in the other application and retry sending it."

What the hell? Why is this going on?

 

[ShadowRed]

Do you have the same version of winrar on both computers?

 

[goodcow]

Do you have the same version of winrar on both computers?

I specifically made it a self-extracting WinRAR file to avoid that potential problem, so that's not it.

 

[goodcow]

They won't even open in Safe Mode. What the fuck?

 

[ShadowRed]

When you raraed the file on the first computer was the drive letter the same as the drive letter on the second computer, ie both computers have the hard drive labeled as C:// .

 

[goodcow]

When you raraed the file on the first computer was the drive letter the same as the drive letter on the second computer, ie both computers have the hard drive labeled as C:// .

No... on my system it was on the dekstop, and my Windows drive is M. (I don't know why it picked M, but it was a Raptor drive I installed after my initial C drive, and Windows picked M)

The other system had Windows installed on a regular C drive.

Is this some WinRAR bug?

 

[Ecrofirt]

Have you tried opening WinRAR on their PC, navigating to the folder where the .exe is, and double clicking it in WinRAR?

 

[goodcow]

Have you tried opening WinRAR on their PC, navigating to the folder where the .exe is, and double clicking it in WinRAR?

I did.

It doesn't matter now, as I'm back home, and I guess I'll have to try again tomorrow without RARing them, but I just find this situation totally bizarre.

 

[Darias]

My guess would be that you created the rar with the files open, and the NTFS file lock still enabled. Try re-rar'ing the files after a clean boot, before anything is run on them.

 

[gblues]

Sounds like it might be an ACL problem.. might be a bitch to find out, but the best way to find out is to log in as Administrator in Safe Mode (even XP Home will show ACLs in safe mode). right-click the files and click Properties, then go to the Security tab and make sure that Everyone has Full Control to the files.