DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

I need to make a load of files read-only. The files are in various directories and subdirectories but I need to make every file in every folder read-only.

If you select the top level folders and make those read-only it does not cascade this to the files/folders within. can this be done another way ? Maybe from the command prompt ? NT4 btw

Thanks

TomM

Cant you just apply security to the files from the top level directory than just allow the users/groups to read only on the permissions tab? - this will filter down to all files in the parent directory.

Cheers,

Tom.

Ps, there is a dos command, Iam just trying it now, long time since I used it!!!

DJ Dunk

iTrader: (5)

Of course I can Sorry, being a muppet today.

Was trying to set the properties from a mirrored server, not direct from the original server

Thanks for your help

Belf

NT4 was a bit of an **** for doing this, 2000 and Xp will propogate the read only attribute down to all sub directories if you wish.

The way I used to do it back in my NT4 days was select the directory then go into the search tool and search for *.* which would give you a list of all of the files from all sub-dirs in one list. Then select them all and change the read only attribute.

shunty

also try cacls.exe Dunky

shunty