If multiple employees of your business are using the same computer you should ensure everyone has access to the files that should be shared between users. This ...

Most of you must be aware that whenever a new file or folder is created, Windows will assign a set of default permissions to it. These are called Effective Permissions. The user who creates the file ...

Google also allows managers to apply an expiration date to the Viewer role on folders in shared drives. When a collaborator ...

We’ve talked before about how syncing files across all your devices is only as useful as your ability to put the files you need in the right place. When that doesn’t happen, it’s handy to have a ...

Windows may lock some files and prevent access to them from within File Explorer for a number of possible reasons. In many cases, a program that crashes or freezes does not release or reset the file ...

A lot of us have one "mothership" desktop computer, along with a laptop or notebook that we take on the road. Many of us also use one computer at work, and another at home. Inevitably, there are ...

The latest optional non-security preview update for Windows 11 introduced a new recommended files feature, which Microsoft ...

Home is where your data is. If you need to access data remotely, and neither a VPN connection nor traditional cloud storage will do the trick, consider using OneDrive as a proxy for remote file access ...

OK, this one is a weird one. Have a bunch of files wrapped up in a VHDx with deduplication to make it small enough to copy to external servers (it's a deployment package). The principal being that all ...