Windows 10: box icons around files saved on the documents folder

We have this teacher who has this icons appearing on his files in the documents folderAny advice I can give to this this user

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Files folders and storage

Hi Peter,

We need more information to be bale to help you better with this issue. Are you facing any issues when saving the word documents or when composing any documents?

If the issue is with saving documents, where are you trying to save them and what is the error message displayed?

I would suggest you to check if the users folder is displayed as "read only'. Open File Explorer, click on the driver where windows is installed, and open the users folder. Right click on the users folder, and then check in the general tab, if it is shown
as 'read only'. If yes, I would suggest you to try these steps and check if the issue persists:

• Open the properties of the main user profile folder where the files are
  
  located (such as Documents, Pictures, etc).
• Go to the Security tab and click Advanced.
• Check the box at the bottom of this window. It is labeled "Replace all child
  
  object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object" and then click
  
  Ok.

 

Can't save files to folders

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Anyway, this is good that you are administrator and the sole user. This is how it should be. So to fix the problem I think you just need to reset the security options on that folder. I can't really say how it got messed up, but this should fix it. These
steps are a bit involved, but just take it step-by-step (some users print them and mark off what step they've done). If you get stuck, just let me know what step you're on.

• Press Windows+R to show the Run box.
• Type (or copy/paste) %userprofile% (including the percent signs) into the box and hit OK to open your user profile folder.
• Right-click the Documents folder and go to Properties.
• On the Security tab, click Advanced.
• At the top, make sure the "owner" is set to your account. If it already is, please skip to step 6.
  
  • A. If the owner is not you, click Change.
  • B. Click Advanced
  • C. Click Find Now
  • D. Select (highlight) your account in the list (it may be a name or email address depending on your setup), then click OK to close the search box.
  • E. Click OK again to close the "select a user" box.
  • F. Turn ON checkbox for "replace owner on subcontainers and objects" (this makes sure you are the owner for
    everything under your documents folder also).
  • G. After the checkbox is on, click OK close the "advanced security" box.
  • H. Click OK again to close the Documents Properties box. At this point, you should be back where you were after step 2 when you opened the User Profile folder.
  • I. Right-click the Documents folder again, and go back to properties,
  • J. On the Security tab, click Advanced, then continue with step 6 below.
• Click "Add"
• Click "Select a principal"
• Click Advanced
• Click Find Now
• Select (highlight) your account in the list (it may be a name or email address depending on your setup), then click OK to close the search box.
• Click OK again to close the "select a user" box
• Turn on "Full Control" checkbox.
• Click OK to close the Permission Entry box.
• Click OK again to close the "Advanced Security" box.
• Click OK again to close the Documents Properties box. At this point, you should be back to where you were after step 2 when you opened the User Profile folder.

Now, double-click the Documents folder to go inside. Try opening any file you have, making a minor change and clicking "Save" to see if it saves properly now that you have "full control" over everything.

Again I know these are long steps. As a word of caution, please do not try to do this on a larger scope (for example, if you tried this on your whole C: drive, you could destroy your OS, so only do it on Documents/Pictures folders and such to be safe).
Also, never use the "Deny" options when setting permissions because those take precedence over the allows, meaning that you can permanently lock yourself out of a folder and never get back in.

 

XPS file opens if saved to desktop, but not a folder in Documents

Hi,

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community.

• Do you face the same issue with all the XPS files saved in Documents folder?
• Do you get the error while saving it in Documents folder or while opening it from XPS viewer?

Try to save it on other folders in File explorer and check if it works.

Please get back to us with the required information to assist you further.