Something happened to a file here. I am pretty much familiar with NTFS rights. I know how to replace ownership, set security rights etc, but the file is blocked with Access is denied when e.g. opening the file in Notepad. I have given my user full access to the file and verified it in effective permissions (full control etc is enabled). I am able to rename the file to any name. e.g. rename to "d:\fileproblem" (no extension). I am able to move the file around on the same disk, but not to another drive. I've tried to turn off antivirus. I fear that something got destroyed whilst I encrypted that folder some weeks ago and then cancelled the operation. Searching for file in process explorer leaves no results. I have rebooted the system several times. Here is a dump of file from subinacl.exe ================ +File d:\fileproblem ================ /control=0x0 /owner =vista1\hal07 /primary group =vista1\none /audit ace count =0 /perm. ace count =8 /pace =builtin\administrators ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 Type of access: Full Control Detailed Access Flags : FILE_READ_DATA-0x1 FILE_WRITE_DATA-0x2 FILE_APPEND_DATA-0x4 FILE_READ_EA-0x8 FILE_WRITE_EA-0x10 FILE_EXECUTE-0x20 FILE_DELETE_CHILD-0x40 FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES-0x80 FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES-0x100 DELETE-0x10000 READ_CONTROL-0x20000 WRITE_DAC-0x40000 WRITE_OWNER-0x80000 SYNCHRONIZE-0x100000 /pace =builtin\administrators ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE-0x2 INHERIT_ONLY_ACE-0x8 OBJECT_INHERIT_ACE-0x1 Type of access: Special acccess : Detailed Access Flags : /pace =system ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 Type of access: Full Control Detailed Access Flags : FILE_READ_DATA-0x1 FILE_WRITE_DATA-0x2 FILE_APPEND_DATA-0x4 FILE_READ_EA-0x8 FILE_WRITE_EA-0x10 FILE_EXECUTE-0x20 FILE_DELETE_CHILD-0x40 FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES-0x80 FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES-0x100 DELETE-0x10000 READ_CONTROL-0x20000 WRITE_DAC-0x40000 WRITE_OWNER-0x80000 SYNCHRONIZE-0x100000 /pace =system ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE-0x2 INHERIT_ONLY_ACE-0x8 OBJECT_INHERIT_ACE-0x1 Type of access: Special acccess : Detailed Access Flags : /pace =authenticated users ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 Type of access: Change Detailed Access Flags : FILE_READ_DATA-0x1 FILE_WRITE_DATA-0x2 FILE_APPEND_DATA-0x4 FILE_READ_EA-0x8 FILE_WRITE_EA-0x10 FILE_EXECUTE-0x20 FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES-0x80 FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES-0x100 DELETE-0x10000 READ_CONTROL-0x20000 SYNCHRONIZE-0x100000 /pace =authenticated users ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE-0x2 INHERIT_ONLY_ACE-0x8 OBJECT_INHERIT_ACE-0x1 Type of access: Special acccess : -Read -Write -Execute -Delete Detailed Access Flags : DELETE-0x10000 GENERIC_READ-0x80000000 GENERIC_WRITE-0x40000000 GENERIC_EXECUTE-0x20000000 /pace =builtin\users ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 Type of access: Read Detailed Access Flags : FILE_READ_DATA-0x1 FILE_READ_EA-0x8 FILE_EXECUTE-0x20 FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES-0x80 READ_CONTROL-0x20000 SYNCHRONIZE-0x100000 /pace =builtin\users ACCESS_ALLOWED_ACE_TYPE-0x0 CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE-0x2 INHERIT_ONLY_ACE-0x8 OBJECT_INHERIT_ACE-0x1 Type of access: Special acccess : -Read -Execute Detailed Access Flags : GENERIC_READ-0x80000000 GENERIC_EXECUTE-0x20000000

I still have similar issues. This time it's on Win7x64 Enterprise. It's VERY annoying.