Hi,

During the process, did you enable the line to extend to subcontainers?
Without it, you'll get exactly what you are seeing.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"EagleRed@HighFlyingBirds.com"
<EagleRedHighFlyingBirdscom@discussions.microsoft. com> wrote in message
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>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 //
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >