Howdy, I have an NTFS partition which contains a few files which are unreadable. All the other files are fine. This seems weird as I can't even read them as root. I do not believe the disk's physical blocks belonging to the files are damaged. I did run from a Windows system 'chkdsk /f d:' to check the partition and try to fix it but no issue was detected. I am running Linux 6.1.90 x86_64. mount command excerpt: /dev/sda2 on /media/tomas/DiskWithTheIssue type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,uhelper=udisks2) ls command excerpt: # ls -lh total 1.5G -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 583M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8446.MOV -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 581M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8447.MOV -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 170M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8448.MOV -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 19M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8449.MOV -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 42M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8450.MOV -rwxrwxrwx 1 tomas tomas 116M Nov 14 2014 TRE_8452.MOV file command excerpt: # file * TRE_8446.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8446.MOV' (Permission denied) TRE_8447.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8447.MOV' (Permission denied) TRE_8448.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8448.MOV' (Permission denied) TRE_8449.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8449.MOV' (Permission denied) TRE_8450.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8450.MOV' (Permission denied) TRE_8452.MOV: ERROR: cannot read `TRE_8452.MOV' (Permission denied) Does anyone have an idea what's going on here? Is this due to some weird NTFS feature to encrypt files or something which is not implemented in the Linux driver? or what..? Thanks all a lot.