I have just gone through a variant of this exercise, I set the ownership to
the Administrators group instead of my own account. I am a member of this
group however. I found that the assumption of ownership is NOT completely
recursive. It only seems to extend to child folders one or two levels deep.
Beyond that say folders with relative paths like .\sub1\sub2\sub3 are
unaffected. I have a large drive with tens of thousands of folders and files
where I need to change ownership and grant permissions. I need a good way to
do this without having to individually touch each one.

Any further ideas.

Thanks,
Eagle

"chall3ng3r" wrote:

> thanks Rick, i already found that :P
>
> thanks again for the reply.
>
> // chall3ng3r //
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > You need to take ownership of the other files before you can change
> > permissions. Right click a folder and select permissions. From the security
> > tab you want to click advanced. From the Owner tab, click edit and change it
> > to your current user account. Make sure to check the box so that this
> > extends to all subcontainers. It will take a bit of time for this to run.
> > Then close the permissions dialog and reopen it, you should then be able to
> > alter any other user account access lists.
> >
> > --
> > Best of Luck,
> >
> > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> >
> > "chall3ng3r" <chall3ng3r@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:FD0D891B-1CE8-4601-BC7C-904449317C84@microsoft.com...
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > in my previous xp installations, i never reformated all drives. i just
> > > formated c: which actullay contains the os and all other programs i've
> > > installed on it. so, i kept safe my data all the time on other drives.
> > >
> > > all my drives are ntfs.
> > >
> > > in some previouse xp installs, i tried to apply permissions to invidual
> > > files & folders. later i reinstalled xp many times, and now switched to
> > > vista. now many of these files & folders are not accessable, and i get
> > > access
> > > denied error when i try to open the folder.
> > >
> > > can anyone tell me how i can RESET permissions to default on my all other
> > > drives (other than c? and also how i can unlock those locked files &
> > > folders.
> > >
> > > many thanks,
> > >
> > > // chall3ng3r //
> > >
> > >
> >
> >