I think I understand your problem. Files and directories in the snapshot area are READ-ONLY. You cannot change them at all. You will have to copy the files out of the snapshot area to an active filesystem, then you can manipulate them.

Hope this helps.

-- Adam Fox NetApp Professional Services, NC adamfox@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: brad@ThoughtWorks.com [mailto:brad@ThoughtWorks.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 5:23 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: recovering data from user's snapshot directory?

We have a few employees that have left the company and I need to get their data back from their snapshot directories (the original files and folders were deleted as well as the usernames).

The volume is a CIFS homedrive setup and if I try to take ownership of the folders under the snapshot directory, I cannot. I also cannot give myself read access to the folder.

Has anyone else has this problem?

I'm logging in via the administrator account and it still does not work.

Thanks in advance for your help.