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recursively change owner windows 7

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Mar 15, 2026123396 views
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Problem

Somehow I accidentally set all the files in a subfolder to "No Owner' and I can't seem to change all the permissions. I can change one by hand by changing the owner then setting permissions but how can I change owner of all the files in this directory at once?

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Fix for: recursively change owner windows 7

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To fix really broken permissions, the best is to run these two commands one after the other: The first one will give you ownership of all the files, however that might not be enough, for example if all the files have the read/write/exec permissions set to "deny". You own the files but still cannot do anything with them. In that case, run the second command, which will fix the broken permissions.

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