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July 31, 2012 14:08
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Reset Permissions on Folder Hierarchy in Windows
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| SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION | |
| SET TGT=%1 | |
| SET TGT=%TGT:"=% | |
| IF "%TGT%"=="" SET TGT=* | |
| takeown /f "%TGT%" /R /D Y > nul | |
| icacls "%TGT%" /reset /t /q | |
| icacls "%TGT%" /grant %USERNAME%:F /t /q | |
| attrib -r -h -s "%TGT%" /s /l /d |
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Usage:
reset_perms "Some Folder" will recursively take ownership of all files in the folder (and sub folders), then reset ACLs to default, grant the current user FULL permissions and reset attributes.
Particularly useful when dealing with access denied errors.