Setting Ownership and Permissions for Multiple Files 2

[AbidingDude]

So, I just upgraded my wife's computer from XP: new CPU, RAM, motherboard, and hard drive. Since I put in a new hard drive, I figured I could just plug in her old one in an extra SATA port so that she could still access her old files. Mostly I wanted her to have access to her MP3 collection.
For one, it was difficult because Windows kept telling me I didn't have permission to access them. I eventually found an article that showed me how to gain access for an individual file or folder. However, with the folder thing, it seems that I only gain access to the folder, not the files within it. I was able to obtain access for individual files, but I can't do that for all of her MP3s. Is there "group" way of doing this?

 

[xwb]

Are all her mp3s in the same directory? Say the directory is called music. You could try something like

cacls music /E /G everyone:R
cacls music /E /T /G everyone:R

First line gives access to the directory called music
Second line gives access to all the subdirectories of music

 

[AbidingDude]

It worked! Thank you!

 

[xwb]

Note that MS have deprecated cacls. We're supposed to use icacls instead of cacls for W7/8.x but I can never remember the syntax.