Win10 file permissions / Dropbox

[spionfox]

Installed W10 on my laptop (not my main PC thankfully!) and getting a problem with file permission.

Dropbox will only sync on my W10 box if I run it as an administrator. My only account on W10 IS as an administrator. All of the files in my Dropbox folder are unable to be opened except as 'read-only'. Looking at the security policy for the affected folders it appears that I am accessing them as a 'home user' (no write permission) rather than an 'admin user' (full read/write permission).

Anybody got any ideas? Only really noticed since my W10 log-in went from my old pre-upgrade details to my Microsoft ID. (Changing back didn't help either.)

Thanks!

 

[Macky]

Microsoft have always been really shit at permissions, it always seems like it's just an after-thought with them.
Have you tried deleting and reinstalling Dropbox? It's quite possible it's all just been bollocksed up during the upgrade

 

[spionfox]

Have you tried deleting and reinstalling Dropbox? It's quite possible it's all just been bollocksed up during the upgrade

I'll try that now, cheers.

 

[spionfox]

I'll try that now, cheers.

Just thought, even without Dropbox running the files in the Dropbox folders are still read only. As this is a second PC and the original files came from my main one perhaps W10 assumes they belong to somebody else?

I think the main problem is that even though I am logging in as an administrator I only seem to get normal 'home user' rights on the files.

 

[spionfox]

Worked it out. When upgrading, Win10 by default starts you off with a 'local' account based on your previous Win7 login details. All is well with this setting. If however you choose to log in to W10 using a MS account then beware because that is what ****ed up my file permissions on existing files.