Well, that made no sense

[ellarien]

I brought home Butterfly, the work XP laptop, this weekend, and was pulling my recently-updated files over to Diamond, the desktop that was recently upgraded to Win7. Some of the files -- presentations that I'd got from other people at some meeting or other -- wouldn't copy to eother Butterfly or the Vista laptop, because of "permissions" problems. (In fact, apparently I don't have permission to look at the permissions over the network, and XP doesn't offer any access to file permissions that I can find, other than toggling read-only on/off. On the Butterfly end, they're marked as "This file came from another computer and may have been blocked", but checking the box to unblock them doesn't help. On the other hand, from the Butterfly end there's no problem in pushing the file over to either machine. Go figure ...

I can see why MS would be trying to get more serious about file security, but it would be nice if they made it compatible with the grown-up computer world and slightly more transparent.