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Niki Tonsky

Can God create a stone he couldn’t destroy? I certainly can

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Dmitry Fedotov

@nikitonsky no, you can't. But Windows certainly can :)

Kirill Osenkov

@nikitonsky restarting the computer should help. Is there a stray FileSystemWatcher watching this directory? Or a process that has this directory as current? I remember the symptoms, and remember restarting helped, but don’t remember what is going on.

Niki Tonsky

@KirillOsenkov I suspect it silently switched accounts when I logged in into Windows Store. I used to have local acc and now it’s microsoft acc

Frederic Thevenet

@nikitonsky That's because God, being a seasoned Windows admin, knows that if he needs to overwrite ACLs placed by another admin (how blasphemous, I know) on an NTFS object he must first take ownership of that object.

He does so by right-clicking>Properties>Security>Advance and select "change" next to the item "owner". He is now Almighty, and may do as he pleases and set new ACLs on the object.

Please don't tell God I told you. 🙃

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