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I can't do any work.
Why not, you ask?
Because every file on my HDD is read only.
And when I change them, it changes them back.
So I take full control of my HDD.
No I don't, it can't enumerate all the folders.
I can't even back up, because it has decided that my whole NAS is read only as well.
Did Apple send some of it's developers behind enemy lines to produce this misbegotten pile of stupidity, or does MS have a death wish - because I notice via Google that I'm not the only one this is happening to.
I am so tempted to reload my last disk image - this is just wasting my time.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ring, Ring - Ring, Ring.
OG - Picks up phone
Caller - Did you know you have a problem with your PC.
OG - Yes, I do.
Caller - If you give me access I will fix it for you.
OG - Perfect, here you go then.
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Did the conversion process to win 10 by any chance prompt you to sign in with a different (or newly created Microsoft Account).
The two machines I have 'allowed' to run the update so far have not been affected by this, both however were accessed via a Microsoft Id to start with and that same id is still in use on the upgrade. Admittedly, and especially in the light of what folks have said here and elsewhere my main development machine remains firmly anchored to it's old system os.
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Even if you are the owner, and you disable Read-only on all the files, that doesn;t do it.
The permissions applied to files and folders have been "tampered with" by Win10.
Open an explorer window, and right click "Documents"
Select "Properties" and wait until it finishes enumerating files - a while in my case.
Select the "Security" tab.
Select the users group. Press "Edit"
Let it finish...and select the users group again. Notice that you can "Read & execute" and "List folder contents".
Click "Full Control" under "Allow".
Click "Apply"...and wait again. In my case it's retagging 128,000 files or so...
If it "fails to enumerate", click "Continue", repeatedly. It did this a lot with me, possibly because it's in use - by windows because you are using windows to modify files in the folder...
When it finishes, click "OK".
Pour yourself a coffee, and swallow a couple of paracetamol...
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If you did the "upgrade" you can revert to the previous Windows version very easily - I reverted my home PC to Win 7 last night - took about an hour but was a fully automated process
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Formatting the hard drive first helped a lot, I guess.
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I was trying to make a fun statement by telling that you reverted but first lost all your data.
I should have added ten joke icons.
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I suspected as much but one can never be too careful 
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You trust Microsoft that much? 
I took a AOMEI disk image of the whole HDD the night before the upgrade just to be sure I could revert to exactly what I had, so if I do "Go back" that's the path I'll take.
But at the moment, I'm trying to struggle through and get to like this steaming pile of cow manure new operating system, if only because I know there will be quite a few people who I'll have to support who'll be using it and I don't want to have to tell them "sod off, you're on your own with that!"
But it is making itself extremely difficult to like: two whole days wasted so far, and yet to find anything I prefer compared to Win 7. Better than Win 8, but that's like saying I prefer my excrement polished to a mirror finish...
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There was nothing on there I couldn't recover easily by other means
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Griff , have you got the paid version of AOMEI ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Nope, just the free "Standard 2.8" - works fine so far.
I might even upgrade it to 3.1 once I'm happy with the PC. 
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Ok thanks, where do you store the images ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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On a external USB HDD: I have a bunch of 2TB / 4TB Seagate drives (Amazon[^] & Amazon[^]) which AOMEI will store multiple images on (unlike MS which overwrites each time)
My 1TB PC HDD is partitioned 50/50 Apps and Data, and the whole thing compresses to around 350GB per image.
(Being a backup freak, I also have images on my NAS, thumb drives, and anywhere else I can safely hide them! )
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Ok thanks Griff, one more question - what type of backup should I use to take a snapshot of the entire computer ? I'm a little unsure of the menu options
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Cheers Griff - how do you mount a drive to recover a file ?
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Impressive thanks very much for your time
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You're welcome!
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Hi Griff, I followed your instructions and created a disk image but am having problems creating a bootable media,I'm trying to use a usb stick as the media and it fails at the formatting boot part ( that was trying to create a Windows PE one ) In the end having tried several usb sticks I tried a Linux one and that worked in as much as it boots but I can't see a way to select the path to my backup image ( it's on my LAN ) I've tried typing the UNC path but "lots of nothing happened" any ideas ? I suppose I should start a thread on this somewhere else ?
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I haven't tried on mine - I've only the one USB stick and I can't recycle that at the moment as it's bootable for MS backup.
But the AOMEI web site has some instructions[^]
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Ok thanks, do I need to create bootable media to restore a backup ?( I assumed I did as I didn't think you could flash a mounted drive ) the system seems to be able to restore it without one ( although I did back out at the last minute so maybe it reboots into a shell ) Sorry to pester you
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