photo gallery can't open this picture because you don't have permission to asscess file location

Anonymous
2009-04-19T20:08:54+00:00

i had to format my pc yesterday and i can not access my pics on my 2ndry hardrive can anyone help this is the message i get when i try to view them

photo gallery can't open this picture because you don't have permission to asscess file location

RJ

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2011-01-09T16:50:15+00:00

I recently started have the SAME problem. Windows Photo Viewer had been working swimmingly over the last few months on the same exact images without any problems.

I suspect Microsoft updated some code somewhere that got pushed out as an update -- that's now causing the problem.

As a diagnostic, I tried right-click "Open with..." and chose Paint. The same file opened without any problems.

Thumbnails are all being generated for ALL images without problem.

Yet Windows Photo Viewer cannot view ANY of my image files. Paint has no problems.

Similarly, right-click "Open with..." and chosing Microsoft Office 2010. Image loads with no problems.

If the original poster has the same success using other programs -- then the problem is with Windows Photo Viewer -- Microsoft's not having it recognize the code permissions or something.

This is on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Most recent updates from Microsoft applied.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-10-16T09:14:43+00:00

    This solved the problem for me too, you can select the top the folder (in my case g:\ my documents \ my pictures.

    Properties -> security -> advanced -> change permissions

    Tick 'include inheritable permissions' AND 'replace all child permissions'

    Job done :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-01-09T06:40:53+00:00

    Thank you thank you thank you!!!! I have been pulling my hair out trying to get my 30,000+ pictures and videos since my other laptop was broken. i moved my hard drive to my dinosaur desktop with XP and everything went crazy. I was minutes away from throwing the drive across the room!

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-01-24T23:01:11+00:00

    this helped alot and after also using what Ski1382 had wrote, i was home free.  thank you so much for your insight.

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