Changing folder permissions recursively/

I have an old Vista "program files", from a previous installation on my
E:\ drive, that's no longer used, it's however taking up stacks of space,
and I want to delete it. I have taken ownership of it, I can delete
directories, but not ones that contain sub-directories, as the sub
directories don't inherit the parents permissions.

It's going to be impossible to manually delete every folder in the tree,
is there a way?

I have tried using cacl, but it just comes back with "the data is
invalid" (great error message there Microsoft...)

Help....

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try
icacls "e:\program files" /grant administrators:F /t

I'm not sure if the quotes are needed...


"BlackShuck" <mark.gillespie@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have an old Vista "program files", from a previous installation on my
> E:\ drive, that's no longer used, it's however taking up stacks of space,
> and I want to delete it. I have taken ownership of it, I can delete
> directories, but not ones that contain sub-directories, as the sub
> directories don't inherit the parents permissions.
>
> It's going to be impossible to manually delete every folder in the tree,
> is there a way?
>
> I have tried using cacl, but it just comes back with "the data is
> invalid" (great error message there Microsoft...)
>
> Help....
>
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BlackShuck;540061 Wrote:

> I have an old Vista "program files", from a previous installation on m
> E:\ drive, that's no longer used, it's however taking up stacks o
> space
> and I want to delete it. I have taken ownership of it, I can delet
> directories, but not ones that contain sub-directories, as the su
> directories don't inherit the parents permissions
>
> It's going to be impossible to manually delete every folder in th
> tree
> is there a way
>
> I have tried using cacl, but it just comes back with "the data i
> invalid" (great error message there Microsoft...
>
> Help...
>
> -
> Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: 'Opera Mail Client
> (http://www.opera.com/mail/

Hi BlackShuck

This tutorial will show you how to take ownership of the folder wit
it's subfolders included. See the NOTE in METHOD TWO step 8

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67...rship-file.htm

Shaw

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:16:29 -0000, Dave <dave@beepbeep.com> wrote:

> try
> icacls "e:\program files" /grant administrators:F /t
>
> I'm not sure if the quotes are needed...
>

Perfect, thank you very much!!!

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