Two PCs on a SoHo LAN: old Win 7 Pro 64-bit with many important folders and files, and new Win 10 Pro 64-bit v21H2 ready to get copies of all those folders and files. (And to replace the old PC when all done.)
To help our employee copy all those folders and files from old 7 PC to new 10 PC, this is what I did:
On the new 10 PC’s Desktop, I created a new folder called Target. I set it to Share Read-Write with Permissions to Everyone Full Control, which I also confirmed in its Security tab.
On the old 7 PC’s desktop, I set up a Network Shortcut Link to the Target folder on the new 10 PC.
On the old 7 PC, I made test files and copied and pasted them into the Network Shortcut Link, and they appeared in the Target folder on the new 10 PC. SO far, so good.
I left instructions to the employee to do that with all the old folders and files on the old PC, one at a time, and in the new 10 PC to move each copied folder and file from Target to wherever she wanted to put it on the new PC.
A day later, she reports that it didn’t work. and that pasting into the Network Shortcut Link on the old PC triggered a password request.
So I remoted in tonight and found that the Target folder on the new 10 PC had lost all its Share permissions and was no longer Shared and no longer gave any permissions at all to Everyone.
How did that happen?
I’ve reset Target back to Share Read-Write with Full Control Permissions and Security to Everyone, and again the process seems to work well with test files.
But what went wrong?
Thoughts? Thanks.
(Could MalwareBytes on the new PC get scared of Shared Everybody Full Control and flip the folder back to Not Shared No Permissions? Or some other security protocol?)
(Or could Log Off on the new PC break Shared Everybody Full Control so that it goes back to Not Shared No Permissions?)
(Or when employee on the old Win 7 PC copies a folder into the Network Shortcut Link, could the settings for that pasted folder change the settings for Target?)
