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I have a folder under the Windows directory of my Windows Vista OS. This
folder 'orclobi', was created when I installed a piece of software.
I have set ownership of this folder from "Administrators" to myself and have
"Full control" selected under the Security settings.
When I try to delete this folder by right clicking, I receive the following
message:
"You need permission to perform this action"
My User Account is of type Administrator. Its rather surprising that
administrator role does not allow an simple action like file/folder deletion
to be performed.
My research lead me to a forum where the following solution was proposed:
"...
it's not unusual to find some folders that can't be accessed, even by an
administrator, because their ACLs were set for accounts with SIDs that
applied to an old partition. For example, on my home machine, I switched the
C: and D: drive cables around and installed Windows Vista RTM on the new
drive. Having tested everything worked, I wanted to delete some old redundant
directories (like the old \Program Files directory). If even an administrator
can't access the file, how do you take it back?
The secret lies in two command-line utilities, one ancient, the other
completely revised for this release. Respectively, these are takeown (which
takes ownership of a file or directory) and icacls (which sets new ACLs on
that directory). I created a small batch command on my system called
itsmine.cmd, as follows:
takeown /f %1 /r /d y
icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t
From an elevated command prompt, you can run a command such as itsmine
d:\hard_to_delete and this will reset ownership and ACLs on the
hard_to_delete directory such that a command like rd /s d:\hard_to_delete
should work.
...."
I tried the above. It deletes some files and folders contained in 'orclobi'
but not all.
Also when I reboot the deleted files also magically re-appear.
Please provide a detailed step-by-step solution to resolving this issue.
Thanks.
Hash
folder 'orclobi', was created when I installed a piece of software.
I have set ownership of this folder from "Administrators" to myself and have
"Full control" selected under the Security settings.
When I try to delete this folder by right clicking, I receive the following
message:
"You need permission to perform this action"
My User Account is of type Administrator. Its rather surprising that
administrator role does not allow an simple action like file/folder deletion
to be performed.
My research lead me to a forum where the following solution was proposed:
"...
it's not unusual to find some folders that can't be accessed, even by an
administrator, because their ACLs were set for accounts with SIDs that
applied to an old partition. For example, on my home machine, I switched the
C: and D: drive cables around and installed Windows Vista RTM on the new
drive. Having tested everything worked, I wanted to delete some old redundant
directories (like the old \Program Files directory). If even an administrator
can't access the file, how do you take it back?
The secret lies in two command-line utilities, one ancient, the other
completely revised for this release. Respectively, these are takeown (which
takes ownership of a file or directory) and icacls (which sets new ACLs on
that directory). I created a small batch command on my system called
itsmine.cmd, as follows:
takeown /f %1 /r /d y
icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t
From an elevated command prompt, you can run a command such as itsmine
d:\hard_to_delete and this will reset ownership and ACLs on the
hard_to_delete directory such that a command like rd /s d:\hard_to_delete
should work.
...."
I tried the above. It deletes some files and folders contained in 'orclobi'
but not all.
Also when I reboot the deleted files also magically re-appear.
Please provide a detailed step-by-step solution to resolving this issue.
Thanks.
Hash
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