Only then can you reopen the main Permissions window to set the appropriate
permissions, after which you can make your changes; there are several examples
of this procedure throughout this book, particularly in Chapters 3 and 7.
Another time when you??™d use the Owner tab is when you need to share documents
between two Windows installations on the same PC (see ???Set Up a
Dual-Boot System??? in Chapter 1); in most cases, Windows won??™t let you
access such files until you ???take ownership??? using the Owner tab of this
window.
For another way to manage ownership of files and folders, see the ???Take
Ownership from the Command Line??? sidebar, next.
What??™s the Creator Owner Account?
From time to time, you??™ll see a reference to Creator Owner in the Permissions
window, but if you try to find the account by that name in one of the user
account tools described at the beginning of this chapter, you??™ll come up
empty handed.
Why? Because Creator Owner is not an account.
Rather, it??™s a generic moniker that protects an object by ensuring that only the
object??™s owner can modify it.
Say a user on your PC creates an Excel spreadsheet and puts it in a shared
folder. Then, another user logs in to the same PC and opens the document.
In some cases, and depending on the file??™s permissions, the second user won??™t
be able to make changes and save the file until he assumes ownership of it.
The subtleties of this scheme can be complex and rather confusing, but luckily,
they aren??™t particularly important.
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