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[murrayja]

I move files between computers using a thumb drive. I have somehow gotten into the situation where all the files in a folder are denied write access. I am looking for a way to set the permissions on all the files together. I know how to do it individually. I have tried "ATTRIB -R *.*" but it fails too.

 

[ChrisHirst]

Change the owner of the root folder and set permissions to inherit

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[murrayja]

Thank you for the suggestion to change and propagate the owner and permissions but how does one do that? I cannot find anything in a folder properties nor in the control panel folder option. I beat the system by creating a new folder and copying, not moving, the files to it.

Microsoft did some good things in windows 7 but left out a lot of XPs facility.

thank you for replying.

 

[strongm]

>to change and propagate the owner and permissions

You can't if the thumb drive is FAT32 ...

 

[ChrisHirst]

Properties -> Security -> [Advanced] -> Owner -> [Edit] -> [√] Replace owner on subcontainers and objects -> [Apply]

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[murrayja]

Chris, Thank You, Bye