Finding all files belonging to different user in XP Pro

[Mike Fields]

I have a minor problem in my network -- when I set my laptop
up several years ago, I created my account as "Mike" -- all my
other accounts are "Mikey". I want to change the underlying
account so it matches the rest of the machines in my
network. I have researched the issue of creating the new user,
copying the profile etc. Also how to take ownership of the
files so that my new "self" owns the files. What I have not been
able to find the answer to is "how do I find all files owned by
'Mike' so I can take ownership of them ??". If the account
names are really the same, it makes sharing files etc much
easier (yes, I know I can change the "viewed" name, but that
does not change the actual account).

XP Pro, SP2 and I have full admin on all machines.

It's easy in Unix using the find command to find all the files
and change the owner on one line - just can't find the key
to doing it in windows (no, not windows bashing, just
wishing to get the equiv. of the find command here !)

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a minor problem in my network -- when I set my laptop
up several years ago, I created my account as "Mike" -- all my
other accounts are "Mikey". I want to change the underlying
account so it matches the rest of the machines in my
network. I have researched the issue of creating the new user,
copying the profile etc. Also how to take ownership of the
files so that my new "self" owns the files. What I have not been
able to find the answer to is "how do I find all files owned by
'Mike' so I can take ownership of them ??". If the account
names are really the same, it makes sharing files etc much
easier (yes, I know I can change the "viewed" name, but that
does not change the actual account).

XP Pro, SP2 and I have full admin on all machines.

It's easy in Unix using the find command to find all the files
and change the owner on one line - just can't find the key
to doing it in windows (no, not windows bashing, just
wishing to get the equiv. of the find command here !)

It is doubtful - since you run as an admin - you will have to take ownership
of anything.

 

[Michael Bednarek]

[snip]

It's easy in Unix using the find command to find all the files
and change the owner on one line - just can't find the key
to doing it in windows (no, not windows bashing, just
wishing to get the equiv. of the find command here !)

Maybe a combination of DIR /Q, FIND (or FINDSTR), and SUBINACL can help.

 

[Mike Fields]

[snip]

It's easy in Unix using the find command to find all the files
and change the owner on one line - just can't find the key
to doing it in windows (no, not windows bashing, just
wishing to get the equiv. of the find command here !)

Maybe a combination of DIR /Q, FIND (or FINDSTR), and SUBINACL can
help.

Thanks for the feedback. I did copy use the copy the profile method
and it worked fairly clean -- only one little glitch somehow, palm
desktop
keeps a pointer to where the .msi file was when it was installed and
is not clever enough to let you do a clean install again -- the full
download
from palm wants to use the installer that is off in a temp file under
the
old user (even if you uninstall it first). Strange.

mikey