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12-10-2007
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| | Changing folder permissions recursively/ I have an old Vista "program files", from a previous installation on my E:\ drive, that's no longer used, it's however taking up stacks of space, and I want to delete it. I have taken ownership of it, I can delete directories, but not ones that contain sub-directories, as the sub directories don't inherit the parents permissions. It's going to be impossible to manually delete every folder in the tree, is there a way? I have tried using cacl, but it just comes back with "the data is invalid" (great error message there Microsoft...) Help.... -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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12-10-2007
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| | Re: Changing folder permissions recursively/ try icacls "e:\program files" /grant administrators:F /t I'm not sure if the quotes are needed... "BlackShuck" <mark.gillespie@xxxxxx> wrote in message news  p.t24f4tyiwg46qs@xxxxxxQuote: > I have an old Vista "program files", from a previous installation on my > E:\ drive, that's no longer used, it's however taking up stacks of space, > and I want to delete it. I have taken ownership of it, I can delete > directories, but not ones that contain sub-directories, as the sub > directories don't inherit the parents permissions. > > It's going to be impossible to manually delete every folder in the tree, > is there a way? > > I have tried using cacl, but it just comes back with "the data is > invalid" (great error message there Microsoft...) > > Help.... > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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12-10-2007
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Changing folder permissions recursively/  Quote: Originally Posted by BlackShuck  I have an old Vista "program files", from a previous installation on my E:\ drive, that's no longer used, it's however taking up stacks of space, and I want to delete it. I have taken ownership of it, I can delete directories, but not ones that contain sub-directories, as the sub directories don't inherit the parents permissions. It's going to be impossible to manually delete every folder in the tree, is there a way? I have tried using cacl, but it just comes back with "the data is invalid" (great error message there Microsoft...) Help.... -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: Opera Mail Client This tutorial will show you how to take ownership of the folder with it's subfolders included. See the NOTE in METHOD TWO step 8. Take Ownership of file Shawn |
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12-12-2007
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| | Re: Changing folder permissions recursively/ On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:16:29 -0000, Dave <dave@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > try > icacls "e:\program files" /grant administrators:F /t > > I'm not sure if the quotes are needed... > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ |
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