I am unable to open certain files stored on my Desktop. I can open the Recycle Bin, I can open shortcuts, I can open the
desktop.ini files, I can open DOCX files, I can open EXE files and I can open
VBS files. By opening files I mean double-clicking on the file icons. But I cannot open picture files (JPG or
PNG).
If I try double-clicking on any picture file on my Desktop nothing happens! If I right click on the file icon and choose
Preview it's the same thing, nothing happens! But I can open pictures files stored in my
Pictures folder in C:\Users\User, either by double-clicking on file icons or by right clicking on them and choosing
Preview. Also, if I copy or move the files I have on Desktop to the Pictures folder then all of a sudden I can open them! I can either double-click on file icons or right click and choose
Preview. But If I move these files back to Desktop, then I can't open them! What gives???
I am assuming that this has something to do with file and folder security settings. But I am not sure what's wrong, or what to do. Note that all these files, basically all files stored in C:\Users were restored from an
Acronis full disk backup file (Full_backup_of_Vista_(ST1PT1).tib). I know that during the backup recovery process in Acronis True Image Home 2011 I left the default setting on for the option
"recover files with their original security settings".
Leaving the "recover files with their original security settings" option on resulted in the old user account
SID being listed in the security list of files and/or folders (i.e. S-1-5-21-3623811015-3361044348-30300820-1013). For this reason, I decided to delete all of the restored files, and restore them again, only this time I un-ticked the option "recover
files with their original security settings". This way, the files would inherit security settings from the folders they are stored in.
So here I am now, still having issues with file security, even after removing the option I mentioned above and restoring files once again.
There are no unknown SID numbers listed for these files now. All I can see is the
Administrators group, the SYSTEM group and Samir which is my user account. The same thing is shown for the
Desktop folder. So why would this be an issue now? At the same time, the
Pictures folder has the unknown account number S-1-5-21-2544407746-3790578479-2786702567-1000 and yet I have no problems opening files in this folder?! So what's going on? What should I do?
