I messed up my folder permissions...

[panteragstk]

As the title states I have somehow messed up my folder permissions on some of my hard drives. I fixed most of the problem by taking ownership of the folders and then adding authorized users and selecting permissions for any users I want to add. However, for some reason these settings are not applying to sub-folders or files in these folders. So you can see my delima. How in the world do I apply all of these settings without having to select each level of the file system?

How do I do this?

[Spectrum]

Open the folder properties, go to the security tab, click on advanced, click on change permissions, set your permissions to what you want for that folder and all subfolders and place a checkmark in the "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object" box and hit ok.

That's for Win 7. Vista and XP will be similar but things may be worded slightly different.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by Spectrum

Open the folder properties, go to the security tab, click on advanced, click on change permissions, set your permissions to what you want for that folder and all subfolders and place a checkmark in the "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object" box and hit ok.

That's for Win 7. Vista and XP will be similar but things may be worded slightly different.

That is what I found eventually. Sorry for not updating the thread. Thanks anyway.

Do you have any idea how something like this could happen?

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

That is what I found eventually. Sorry for not updating the thread. Thanks anyway.

Do you have any idea how something like this could happen?

NP. Rogue clicking can do it. Virus/malware can do it. A hard drive going south could do it. Lots of possibilities.

I'm assuming it wasn't rogue clicking you can update your virus scanner and run a full scan to rule that out. Run Malwarebytes, Ad-aware, Spybot, etc to rule out malware. Make sure you have things backed up in case of drive failure. You could also run the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drive but those are not 100% guarantee nothing is going wrong; you aren't likely to get a false positive, but a false negative is another matter altogether.