Over the last 3 days I am now being prompted by a Property Loss dialog when attempting to copy certain files from an external HDD to a USB on Windows 7. It is not the NTFS to FAT issue, as this has only started occurring. As part of my usual routine I have done this since installing Windows 7 using the same drives with no issue. This does not happen from another external HDD of the same model and of the same file vintage. Also, which may be related, now if I restart Win7, the local folders I share loose the 'Share this folder' under Advanced Sharing. I wonder if this is a result of a recent security patch? Thanks in advance for any insight... Cheers

Hi, Thanks for posting in Microsoft TechNet Forum. Due to this issue just occurred recently, firstly, please use System Restore get back to a previous time point which everything worked fine to test the result. As you said, you suspect this may be caused by a secure patch, may I know more detail information about it? Just for a test, please see how it works in Safe Mode. If the issue persists, to analyze this issue better, please provide the exact error message for us, and capture a screenshot on this issue: How to capture a screenshot ========================= 1) Press the Print Screen key (PrtScn) on your keyboard. 2) Click the "Start" menu, type "mspaint" in the Search Bar and Press Enter. 3) In the Paint program, click the "Edit" menu, click "Paste", click the "File" menu, and click "Save". 4) The "Save As" dialogue box will appear. Type a file name in the "File name:" box, for example: "screenshot". 5) Make sure "JPEG (*.JPG;*.JPEG;*.JPE;*.JFIF)" is selected in the "Save as type" box, click “Desktop” on the left pane and then click "Save". 6) Then Upload to SkyDrive. Hope it helps. Alex Zhao TechNet Subscriber Support in forum. If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.comPlease remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

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Hi Alex Thanks for your response (apologies I haven't been at my work PC for a while). I found the solution to the Share the Folder issue. There seemed to be some artifact registry settings that caused the permissions to dropout (from memory these were under HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanServer\Shares). I removed the xHDDs, rebooted checked this registry location and deleted those that aren't supposed to be there. When I reconnected these and reset the permissions on the Share Folders, rebooted, then checked the permissions were retained. In regard to the 'Property Loss' dialog box, it is related to the NTFS/FAT32 known copy messages that have been discussed elsewhere. I'm not sure why a handful of files decided to prompt me with this dialog box, but after copying them to a FAT formatted drive, then back to NTFS, the dialog box was no longer popping up on file copy. Thanks Alex for your time and suggestions... Cheers TroySch