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Guest Andrew Staley
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Recently we have had a problem where someone has moved a folder (and not

held their hands up to doing it) which is critical to the operation of our

business. Fortunately we were able to move the files back to where they

were.

 

Since moving the files back though we have a folder left with a sub folder

which is causing our backups to fail due to an "Access Denied" error. As

the administrator I have ownership and full permissions to the parent

folder, but I cant access or alter the child folder? When I look at the

properties of the child folder there is no "Security" tab.

 

Is there a way around this, there is no content in either folder but I would

still like to remove it no the less.

 

Thanks in advance, Andrew.

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Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)
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Re: Delete Folder - Access Denied.

 

 

"Andrew Staley" <NOREPLY@NOREPLY.COM> wrote in message

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> Recently we have had a problem where someone has moved a folder (and not

> held their hands up to doing it) which is critical to the operation of our

> business. Fortunately we were able to move the files back to where they

> were.

>

> Since moving the files back though we have a folder left with a sub folder

> which is causing our backups to fail due to an "Access Denied" error. As

> the administrator I have ownership and full permissions to the parent

> folder, but I cant access or alter the child folder? When I look at the

> properties of the child folder there is no "Security" tab.

>

> Is there a way around this, there is no content in either folder but I

> would still like to remove it no the less.

>

> Thanks in advance, Andrew.

>

 

Try this command from a Command Prompt:

 

cacls "d:\Some Folder" /t /e /g administrator:f system:f

Guest Andrew Staley
Posted

Re: Delete Folder - Access Denied.

 

Thanks for the reply. That worked perfectly.

 

Andrew.

 

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message

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>

> "Andrew Staley" <NOREPLY@NOREPLY.COM> wrote in message

> news:%23SdNyNB2HHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Recently we have had a problem where someone has moved a folder (and not

>> held their hands up to doing it) which is critical to the operation of

>> our business. Fortunately we were able to move the files back to where

>> they were.

>>

>> Since moving the files back though we have a folder left with a sub

>> folder which is causing our backups to fail due to an "Access Denied"

>> error. As the administrator I have ownership and full permissions to the

>> parent folder, but I cant access or alter the child folder? When I look

>> at the properties of the child folder there is no "Security" tab.

>>

>> Is there a way around this, there is no content in either folder but I

>> would still like to remove it no the less.

>>

>> Thanks in advance, Andrew.

>>

>

> Try this command from a Command Prompt:

>

> cacls "d:\Some Folder" /t /e /g administrator:f system:f

>

>


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