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changing permissions on multiple files

Discussion in 'Windows Security' started by acsun, May 30, 2009.

  1. acsun

    acsun Guest

    I recently just took the hard drive out of my old laptop that ran xp and
    put it into an enclosure. I'm now trying to access the files on the hard
    drive from a vista machine and each time I want to do something with a
    file I have to change its permission. However I have a lot of files on
    the hard drive and going to properties to change the permission each
    time is a task that will take hours. I tried selecting all the files,
    but when I looked at their properties the security tab doesn't appear in
    the window. So I then ran an elevated command prompt and use the icacls
    command. I typed this in:

    icacls *.jpg /grant myName:(F)

    it should grant myName full access to all the .jpg files in the current
    directory but it just prints "Picture 003.jpg: Access is denied.
    Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files"

    I know I can change permissions on each individual file successfully
    but I have no idea how to do them all at once. Does anyone have an idea
    on how to do this or see if I am doing something wrong.

    Thanks.


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    acsun
     
  2. rive0108

    rive0108 Guest

    Have you tried the tutorial on how to take ownership of the entire
    drive?



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