User folder permissions

[joblack23]

Somehow got screwed up and I don't have permission to the subfolders. I have inherit permission to the main folder but can't get anything beyond that. Any chance I could put this back the way it was? Do I have to go to each folder and take ownership? I don't have rights to them?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Davetoo]

Make the change and allow it to propogate to the children.

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[w33mhz]

When that happens to me I usually go in and set the owner to administrator or my account and check the "Repalce owner on subcontainers and objects" then click apply and ok then open the properties back up again and the ogrinal perms will be there, sometimes anyways, but when they don't I will still have access to the folders again at least.

 

[joblack23]

Thanks much for everyone's post. Everything seems to work well now.

 

[jet042]

I ran into a similar problem when replacing the drive containing my user root on my DC. For some reason the entire directory had been write protected and when I used to GUI to remove the read-only bit, it looked like it was working but didn't actually do anything. As I remember, I had to use a command-line tool (maybe cacls) to make the change and have it stick.

 

[joblack23]

yep. same here. I ended up copying the content of the folder, remove and recreate the folder and copy everything back. pain in my a#%. I just could not give permission back to the folder owner.