Inheritated Permissions

I have just built a new machine from scratch, installing Vista Home on it.
After transferring the old hard drives from my old machine, I've found an
oddity that I cannot figure out how to solve.

One of the drives in question has a large number of video on it, separated
into folders by title/series/etc.

The issue I've come across is when moving or deleting them, I have to answer
UAC permission requests. I've looked at the ownership, and it appears that
the original "owner", who was me, on my old machine, still exists.

I can individually take ownership of the files and remove the Inheritated
ownership for each file, but not for a directory full of them. If I do so,
the dialog box shows the first file and never moves onward, even if left to
run all night while I sleep.

Is there a quick and easy way to accomplish this? There are a LOT of files
on this drive, and two drives to deal with, and I don't relish doing this one
at a time.

Thanks in advance for any help.


Eric the Grey

Ok, I tried it and no go.

If I use TAKEOWN, I get the following response:

INFO: The current logged on user does not have ownership privileges on
the file (or folder): "Like the Clouds, Like the Wind.avi".

On any file I try with.

I am logged on as the administrator (My login) and only account on the
machine, but it appears that that authority doesn't work at a DOS command
prompt.

CACLS is depreciated according to the /? info, replaced with ICACLS. I
tried a couple of tries with this, but I don't think I'm understanding the
information on that command correctly. It keeps telling me the parameter
"John" (my login name) is incorrect. I've got to read it some more after I
get up.


Eric the Grey