Take ownership and change the permissions.....
I have this in a batch file named setowner.bat
takeown /f %1 /r /d y
icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t
to run, open a cmd window and type
setowner c:\"foldername"
or.......
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> Thanks for the reply Oscar - that seemed to work and I have now wrestled
> back control back of two files...
>
> However, I've got thousands to do, all in different folders although
> all in one top level folder (documents within my docs). Selecting all
> and clicking on properties doesnt seem to bring up the appropriate menus
> that i get from selecting one file... I assume this is because i have
> got folders and files selected.
>
> Any clues how i can sort out this problem on multiple files?
>
> Cheers
>
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