Ahari Posted February 16, 2013 Report Share Posted February 16, 2013 I am new to networks and have a simple 2 PC network at home. I am trying to duplicate some files from the XP machine to some external hard drives attached to the Win 7 machine. I keep getting the error: can't write security information, error -1017 (insufficient permissions) I have spent every day all week trying to solve this and am tearing my hair out!! I really don't know what else to do and my brain is spinning! Why does Retrospect have to be so temperamental and finicky!? Please help me someone.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W Lee Posted March 21, 2013 Report Share Posted March 21, 2013 A few questions: - Is Retrospect running on the XP machine or the Win7 machine? - Is the other machine's drive accessed via a Windows-mapped drive or UNC path? - Do the source XP drive and destination Win7 external drive both have the same file system (FAT32 vs. NTFS)? File security information don't carry over across computers with different user accounts and different User Security Identifiers. In those cases you probably only care about file contents and not file security information. Retrospect duplicate script can enable/disable "Duplicate file security information from XXX" options. Also see this KB article about avoiding error -1017. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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