Access is denied the source file may be in use

What could take multiple guys 2 hours or more each to find is accessed in around 15 minutes on Experts Exchange. All rights reserved. Covered by US Patent. Come for the solution, stay for everything else. Welcome to our community! Very simple, here's what I'm trying to do: Copy all files on the Library Shelf of a File Server department files, home directories, etc. I'd try gigabit ethernet to copy the files out, but I'd assume I'd get the same error and in either case, i'd like to clear it up.

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Our experts volunteer their time to help other people in the technology industry learn and succeed. Plans and Pricing. ACLs will be easy to sort out. But if the files are encrypted you'll have to find out which user encrypted them, and have them decrypt.

Or use a recovery agent, if you've got one. First off, the folder that all of these files were in was owned by a specific user. Which is probably why I wasn't able to delete a specific file, even though the ACL said I should be able to, and I had ownership. Once I took over ownership of the root folder I forgot to click the box to Reset permissions on all child objects and enable propagation of inheritable permissions.

Access is Denied.