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XP - Leftover profile folder and permissions
MKR
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I had to reinstall XP (home), and made the mistake of not formatting the partition. Now I have the profile folder for my account on the old install, and the one for the current install.
The first thing I did was grab a nice little program from Microsoft's KB that turns on the security tab for XP home in folder property dialogs. I changed the owner of the folder to myself so I could delete the files. I made sure to tick the box that makes child folders/files inherit the parent folder's permissions. It seemed to go ok (no errors), but it's only changing the parent folder. I can access the parent folder just fine, but any files or subfolders still give a "Permission Denied" error.
I would like to avoid having to boot in to Linux and mount the drive with RW to delete it (I'm still wary of the supposedly stable new NTFS drivers), so any help would be great.
The first thing I did was grab a nice little program from Microsoft's KB that turns on the security tab for XP home in folder property dialogs. I changed the owner of the folder to myself so I could delete the files. I made sure to tick the box that makes child folders/files inherit the parent folder's permissions. It seemed to go ok (no errors), but it's only changing the parent folder. I can access the parent folder just fine, but any files or subfolders still give a "Permission Denied" error.
I would like to avoid having to boot in to Linux and mount the drive with RW to delete it (I'm still wary of the supposedly stable new NTFS drivers), so any help would be great.
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Usually the bit that can cause issues is leaving out step 2 if it is necessary.
Yeah, I noted that I did that, and it didn't do as expected. :P
It only works one folder down. I can do whatever I want in the parent and one child folder down (e.g: I can read Parent\blah.txt and parent\child\blah.txt), but any lower and I still can't do anything.
I can move any of the folders, but beyond that nothing works.
I'd check the permissions on the child objects if you can, to see if it gives you anymore information. Failing that, manually setting ownership would seem to be the only way to go. You should be able to select all the folders and set their permissions at once if they are actually sharing the same permission set... or I could be making things up on a sleepy Sunday afternoon.
That's not the only way to go. :P
It's letting me manually go in and change permissions (and add an owner when there isn't one), but if I did it for all the folders my arm would fall off. In Linux I would just run a single command to set permissions in a series of subfolders and files. Is there some equivalent in Windows? It would be really helpful.
If nothing else, I'll just boot in to Linux and delete the files that way, but it's something I would like to avoid.
Quick google search brought up some interesting results.
Thanks for the help.
Edit: or not...