Windows 10: Can change permissions of whole folders, have to do it file by file

So recently I had some trouble with windows 7 and upgraded to ten after two attempts at reinstalling 7. I backed up my documents, music, etc onto one of many hard drives currently inside my machine before those two reinstall attempts. Now I'm at windows 10 and I can't mass change permissions of certain folders on that hard drive. Originally the problem was that for some reason I didn't have permissions to view files in those folders even though it's the same machine, merely a different windows installation, and I am also the only owner of my hard drives and my machine, so I fail to see why I should be disallowed access to MY files. Unfortunately I NEED what's in these folders, as it contains all of my music as well as important documents and the programs I need to reinstall to this machine. Anyway, the problem is this, I can change permissions to give myself access to these files ONE AT A TIME, but I cannot do this en masse to the entire folders. That poses a significant problem given the fact that there are 14,000 files in those folders, I cannot POSSIBLY manually change the permissions one file at a time, nor should I have to. I attempt to add permissions so that my username can even read the files, but it merely gives me the error "An error occurred while applying security information to [Folder name]. Failed to enumerate objects in the container. Access is denied" Once again, I am the ONLY user on this machine and I AM an administrator, so I fail to see why I should not once again have access to MY files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.






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Cant open docs downloaded from skydrive to Windows phone

You may have to change or set the permisissions and share files on your SkyDrive account

There are details on how to do this here:

Windows | Official Site for Microsoft Windows 10 Home & Pro OS, laptops, PCs, tablets & more



To change permissions on an existing file or folder

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  Go to SkyDrive.
  
  You might need to sign in with your Windows Live ID.
  
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  Go to the file or folder you'd like to share and expand the right most pane if it's collapsed.
  
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  Under Sharing is a list of people with their permission settings. Click the drop-down for the person whose permissions you'd like to change and select either
  Can view or Can edit. People with Can view permission can only view files, but not change them. People with
  Can edit permission can view and edit files. Your changes will save automatically.
  
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  To remove someone from the list of people with permission to a file or folder, click
  Delete. Your changes will save automatically.
  

Hope this helps.

 

Folder decrupted in windows 10

How can I change file permission to every one? Will this remove the padlock?The issue is with the picture folder, can change file permission apply to this folder?

The reason of removing this encryption attribute is that if I copy files from this folder to usb stick then want to use on another PC that I have no admin rights then I may not be able to use this file.

Thank you