How to Eliminate 'Access Denied' when copying files? Greetings! My WD Passort has started giving me 'Access Denied' messages and I am unable to save files from my office PC to my Passport (still works on home pc.) I get the message "Access Denied". I can not even 'Save As' to my Passport from office pc. What happened? I used to have no problem at all. There have been no equipment changes to any of the pc's my Passport is used on. They all run Windows XP but I can only find Vista or Mac instructions online for resolving this issue. Any help is appreciated! How to Eliminate 'Access Denied' when copying files? Greetings! My WD Passort has started giving me 'Access Denied' messages and I am unable to save files from my office PC to my... » Read More How to Eliminate 'Access Denied' when copying files? Greetings! My WD Passort has started giving me 'Access Denied' messages and I am unable to save files from my office PC to my Passport (still works on home pc.) I get the message "Access Denied". I can not even 'Save As' to my Passport from office pc. What happened? I used to have no problem at all. There have been no equipment changes to any of the pc's my Passport is used on. They all run Windows XP but I can only find Vista or Mac instructions online for resolving this issue. Any help is appreciated! « Show Less
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This is an issue probably related to "ownership" of the directories / files: See this link: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic8914.html for help. Hopefully, this will solve your problem. Also, referenced in that posted link is one from Microsoft describing how to take ownership of directories and files in XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&Product;=winxp(You may have to copy and paste the links into your browser).
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Thre is a much simplier way to do it. There is a program called UNLOCKER. Its a free download, best place to get it is CNET downloads. It will monitor your system or can put in the right click menu when accessing files. It will 'unlock' whatever issue you are having. You can even move files with it to different locations or if you are trying to delete files, it will do it too. Great peice of software and I highly recommend.
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I am NOT an expert, but it made old drives I took out of my old laptops behave like external drives. Your new computer will probably ignore all your VISTA files on the old drive. It is mainly a way to access data files on your old drive.
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A name and password is required to access files in the drive. It can be the same as another, but the drive will only respond to one designated name and password
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I installed the drive for a friend. Most PCs with an accompanying drive which won't write to a particular disc are suffering from some type of file corruption. In the past, when installing a drive to replace an original drive, I've always synced the installation with a reformat to assure proper operation. Unless you're one who maintains a corrupt free operating system (I haven't met many), it's a good rule to follow.
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The WD passport only works with USB 3.0 that's it and is very useful easy to backup and very fast the data transference. This WD Passport doesn't works like a WIFI cloud at your home
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I appreciate the VISTA comments. My OS is VISTA ULTIMATE, and I tried using a Sandisk 4GB TITANIUM USB flash drive. It installed itself immediately without any opportunity for input from me, thus preventing me from erasing the U3 files. It doesn't work, and what is more, you can't erase the nasty files with explorer. Even MMC disk manager won't unlock the 'read-only' property. I contacted the company and told them that the 3 methods they recommend to uninstall U3 files didn't work. They replied by creating an 'EBOX' for me which needs a password (all this bs for a 25 dollar item!) and sent me a reply that quoted the same 3 methods I already told them didn't work. What a mess! I appreciate the VISTA comments. My OS is VISTA ULTIMATE, and I tried using a Sandisk 4GB TITANIUM USB flash drive. It installed itself immediately without any opportunity for input from me, thus preventing me from erasing the U3 files. It doesn't work, and what is more, you can't erase the nasty files with explorer. Even MMC disk manager won't unlock the 'read-only' property. I contacted the company and told them that the 3 methods they recommend to uninstall U3 files didn't work. They replied by creating an 'EBOX' for me which needs a password (all this bs for a 25 dollar item!) and sent... » Read More I appreciate the VISTA comments. My OS is VISTA ULTIMATE, and I tried using a Sandisk 4GB TITANIUM USB flash drive. It installed itself immediately without any opportunity for input from me, thus preventing me from erasing the U3 files. It doesn't work, and what is more, you can't erase the nasty files with explorer. Even MMC disk manager won't unlock the 'read-only' property. I contacted the company and told them that the 3 methods they recommend to uninstall U3 files didn't work. They replied by creating an 'EBOX' for me which needs a password (all this bs for a 25 dollar item!) and sent me a reply that quoted the same 3 methods I already told them didn't work. What a mess! « Show Less
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BW: Unlikely...or at least not the way you'd want. If your WD Passport is configured / designed as a USB 2.0 device, attaching a USB 3.0 cable is not going to get you USB speeds. USB 3.0 is designed to be backwards compatible (with 2.0 and 1.x). The earlier versions of USB are not 'forward' compatible (in that the data throughput would be increased just because the cable was upgraded). Oh yes, did I mention the potential compatibility problem with the physical design of the plugs themselves? Even if you were to find (or make) an adapter plug, you're still up against the USB 2.x design not accepting the USB 3.0 data rates. BW: Unlikely...or at least not the way you'd want. If your WD Passport is configured / designed as a USB 2.0 device, attaching a USB 3.0 cable is not going to get you USB speeds. USB 3.0 is designed to be backwards compatible (with 2.0 and 1.x). The earlier versions of USB are not 'forward' compatible (in that the data throughput would be increased just because the cable was upgraded). Oh yes, did I mention the potential compatibility problem with the physical design of the plugs themselves? Even if you were to find (or make) an adapter plug, you're still up against the USB 2.x design not... » Read More BW: Unlikely...or at least not the way you'd want. If your WD Passport is configured / designed as a USB 2.0 device, attaching a USB 3.0 cable is not going to get you USB speeds. USB 3.0 is designed to be backwards compatible (with 2.0 and 1.x). The earlier versions of USB are not 'forward' compatible (in that the data throughput would be increased just because the cable was upgraded). Oh yes, did I mention the potential compatibility problem with the physical design of the plugs themselves? Even if you were to find (or make) an adapter plug, you're still up against the USB 2.x design not accepting the USB 3.0 data rates. « Show Less
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I am not sure about Windows 8. I have Windows 7 and a Baby Lock. I save as a PES file. Can you take one of your already saved files and put it on the Max card to see if the box is reading. We had to call Amazing Designs to help us thru. I cant load it on my laptop, but works perfectly with the desktop.
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The drive is on your network. It can be accessed from anyone on the network if the drive is mapped to that workstation. You can set permissions on a directory or the whole drive.
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Here is the direct link to the article RBW was talking about.http://support.wdc.com/product/kb.asp?lang=enJust type in 287 into the "Knowledge Base" search bar on the right hand side of the page. Only 1 search result should come up and its called..."How to install, partition, and format a WD drive on Windows (7, Vista, XP, 2000) and Mac OSX"The Mac OSX directions are at the bottom, and it works perfectly once you reformat the hard drive.
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Not sure what you are referring to when you ask about the "same issues"? Trying to read between the lines of what you are asking, I can tell you that I regularly use my 16GB SanDisk Extreme on Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 computers. I've never had any problems safely removing it from any of them. Keep in mind that if an application on your computer--Windows Explorer, a browser, etc.--is still accessing the drive, Windows will tell you it can't be removed safely. I've noticed that Chrome, for example, will "hold" onto a thumb drive after a file download to it longer than I've seen with other browsers. But those cases are Windows or application issues and nothing specific to any particular USB drive. Not sure what you are referring to when you ask about the "same issues"? Trying to read between the lines of what you are asking, I can tell you that I regularly use my 16GB SanDisk Extreme on Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 computers. I've never had any problems safely removing it from any of them. Keep in mind that if an application on your computer--Windows Explorer, a browser, etc.--is still accessing the drive, Windows will tell you it can't be removed safely. I've noticed that Chrome, for example, will "hold" onto a thumb drive after a file download to it... » Read More Not sure what you are referring to when you ask about the "same issues"? Trying to read between the lines of what you are asking, I can tell you that I regularly use my 16GB SanDisk Extreme on Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 computers. I've never had any problems safely removing it from any of them. Keep in mind that if an application on your computer--Windows Explorer, a browser, etc.--is still accessing the drive, Windows will tell you it can't be removed safely. I've noticed that Chrome, for example, will "hold" onto a thumb drive after a file download to it longer than I've seen with other browsers. But those cases are Windows or application issues and nothing specific to any particular USB drive. « Show Less
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Files are files, you can transfer any files to the Mac Passport. Just grab and drop into the Passport. Basically it just knows backing up the Mac as a specialty. I have copied files from my PC to my Passport then copied to the Mac. It should be no problem.
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I don't know. Didnt get any. I'm still on the testing stage. So far no problem moving files within USA but in a few weeks I will find out how it works when I moved files outside USA & back
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Unknown. Two PC's using Win7, including the PC I use to manage the device via browser as backup storage, neither using Seagate software. Another on Win8 using NAS as backup storage but not using the Seagate software to backup data. All PC's using the OS native XCOPY command with /Y /D switches via a batch file. I have firewalled the Seagate device to prevent it accessing or being accessed via internet so that the Remote Access service is not a security vulnerability as Seagate do not provide adequate management of this.
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I have always been skeptical of syncing data files and would suggest backing up and restoring your data file as you work from laptop to desktop and vice versa - or having your desktop be also the server and then access it from your laptop.
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I didn't find any security software on the drive and didn't have any problems copying any data to the drive. if you are having problems transferring data to the drive I suggest contacting Mushkin.
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No problem, I just use windows explorer to copy the .QBW (quick books company file) file from my desktop into the equivalent folder on the laptop overwriting the old files and voila they are synched. But be very careful to really overwrite older with newer data and not vice versa or forget to synch before you continue entering data (as it has happened to me) otherwise it is a mess. Good luck.