Takeown for current directory - taking ownership

Hi, I want to basically take ownership in a batch file of all folders in the current directory. I want to use it to make sure i have access to copy all of the data on a customer's drive before backing it up (and later realising there's data missing, particularly the user folder). I'm creating a batch file that deletes junk files and backs up the data automatically but I'm having trouble.

I know the right-click context menu "Grant Admin Full Control" works perfectly but I want to do it to the current directory in a batch file so my other commands can run afterward, rather than taking full control and coming back ages later to do the next step, I want to make it one step. I have tried a few methods of the web but none appear to be doing the job. the best I can get is about 3 methods that seem to take ownership of the current folder once for every file in the directory which isn't helpful and I think I once got it to take ownership of the folders only but not files... any help?

Hello cowrulz and welcome to the forums

Do you mind if it works for all files in the current directory and all sub-directories? This way we can use the /R switch:

/r Performs a recursive operation on all files in the specified directory and subdirectories.

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So our batch file would look something along the lines of:


Tom