Moved files only opening as 'read-only' in Excel

Question

I moved a large directory of Excel files to another machine. When I sign in as myself (administrator signing into domain) then the files open just fine, but when I sign in as a Power User directly onto the machine, the files open as 'Read-Only'.

I've reset all the attributes through both Windows and DOS, but to no avail. Also I checked on the Search Indexing bug, but indexing is already turned off.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It appears that when the files copied, Power Users wasn't on the permissions list (though Users was). So I added them to the list and all is copasetic.

I've heard that if I just copy the files in under the specific account, instead of being signed in as myself, that it will work that way also. I'll try that next time.