But this didn't work, the padlocks were still there. First I took ownership of the whole drive, and used my username directly - I ticked the box mentioned above and applied it to all items. I had this exact problem, and I managed to fix it.finally.
Can anyone explain how to get rid of it, and/or maybe point me to a good, clear, understandable guide on how to properly set NTFS permissions. In any case, I can't remember exactly what it took, but after messing around with the security settings for a while, I eventually was able to have full access to the drive and have no problems reading/writing/deleting files and folders, but there's the padlock icon still on everything. I always have to add my individual user account and explicitly give it full access. For instance, although my account is in the administrators group, having full access to administrators never seems to work. I have to admit, I find the security settings in all versions of NT mystifying. I recall when I did a clean install of windows 7 RC over my Vista install, I wasn't getting write access to the drive so I had to take ownership of the drive and mess with the security settings before it started working normally. On one of my drives, every single file has a little padlock icon superimposed over the file icon.
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