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· Change owner

· Delete
When you set permissions, you specify the level of access for groups and users. For example, you can let one
user read the contents of a file, let another user make changes to the file, and prevent all other users from ac-
cessing the file. You can set similar permissions on printers so that certain users can configure the printer and
other users can only print. When you need to change the permissions on a file, you can run Windows Explor-
er, right-click the file name, and select Properties. On the Security tab, you can change permissions on the
file.
See all fuller explanation of Permissions in Windows

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-protection/access-control/access-
control#permissions

Our thanks to Alan for an excellent presentation.

Dave Robb

The Perils of OneDrive

The other day I found that I was unable to send or receive emails from my main Outlook account.
Other outlook accounts appeared to function okay as did accounts from other email providers. Had
good old Microsoft had reared its ugly head again.
I use Thunderbird as my email client and am very happy with it. However, I kept getting messages
telling me that my email account was full - odd!

After much frustration, I saved all my old required emails off line – which Thunderbird lets you do
easily and dumped all my old files currently on Thunderbird’s cloud. Unfortunately, the problem
still persisted. I went into Outlook and checked there, again with the same issues even though it said
that I had plenty of Mailbox storage available to me.
Further investigations led me to my OneDrive account which to my knowledge I never use. Looking
at the configuration details, I found that my given 5GB of storage was full. But what of?

Looking into this, I found that the storage space was full of downloaded photos from my phone.
This must have occurred when I saved the photos from Apples iCloud. This obviously tipped me
over my limit. I deleted all these photos as I always save them to another dirive. A little bit more
tidying up and I am now down to 2.2Gb of used personal storage, this is mainly due to Adobe Light-
room catalogue storage.

Further investigations on-line showed this is by far not an uncommon occurrence according to the
Microsoft Community website.
So, to all you Microsoft users, keep an eye on the OneDrive personal storage and make sure you do
not exceed its limits. It worked for me. I hope this helps any of you that get in the same pickle.

Dave