Permission Basics

August 21, 2008

I'll admit I'm a bit of a newbie, but I'm hoping someone can help with this.

I'm trying to protect parent folders from accidental deletion, which I've

done, however I can't seem to stop the content of these folders being

deleted, despite receiving an access denied error.

Here's the basic layout:

PARENT FOLDER -> SUBFOLDER->FILES

If I grant DELETE permissions (on subfolders & files only) on the PARENT,

and then try to delete it, I receive the appropriate error, but all content

is lost.

Is there a way to ensure that if access is denied for the top most folder,

that it won't propogate to subfolders and files?

I know one solution would be to set these permissions at a lower level,

however if you don't know what that will be, it cannot be set?

Thanks in advance

Russell.

August 21, 2008

Re: Permission Basics

"Russella" <russella@tryware.com.au> wrote in message

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> Is there a way to ensure that if access is denied for the top most folder,

> that it won't propogate to subfolders and files?

1. Turn off inheritance within the Security of each Folder within the

Parent,..but don't bother it below that point.

2. Then set the Permission on the Parent.

3. Then individually set the Permissions on each Folder within the Parent

4. Don't bother anything below those Folders because the inheritance that

should still be enabled at that level should take care of it.

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