Heidi, a junior desktop technician, approaches you (her supervisor) ashen-faced.

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Heidi, a junior desktop technician, approaches you (her supervisor) ashen-faced. A few minutes earlier, the president of the company called the help desk and asked Heidi to give his new assistant the permissions needed to access his personal budget spreadsheet. As she was attempting to assign the permissions, she accidentally deleted the BUDGET_USERS group from the spreadsheet's access control list. Heidi is now terrified because that group was the only entry in the file's ACL. No one has access to the spreadsheet file, not even the president or the Administrator account.

Is there any way to gain access to the file, and if so, how?

Explanation / Answer

As a file is never completely deleted from a hard disk...

Heidi could download some software which brings back her folder.

(or)

Heidi can recreate the folder and assign permissions again to all the previous members and make a backup copy this time.

if she already has a backup copy then she could replace it with the lost one.

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