Frank C
Member
Hi,
After many months of futile attempts to clean up "bad" files on my external shared drive, files and folders that I could not change or delete, I have finally had success.
My stepson who is a computer whiz came to visit and provided this solution:
He defined a administrative user in Windows exactly equal to the owner of folders on the the external drive that I could not manage- (EXTERNALDRIVE\admin). Other owners; (Unix User\nobody) and (EXTERNALDRIVE\everyone were OK I could manipulate them -move delete etc..He made this owner - admin - part of WORKGROUP using the Western Digital user interface. With this ID he copied the folders with bad files to a temp folder, deleted the bad folder and renamed the temp folder to the name of the original folder. That corrected the bad owners and provided write access where I previously had only read access.
He had no thought on how the ownership got corrupted by ROBOCOPY but I am very happy with his solution.
I post this in the hope that it may help others.
After many months of futile attempts to clean up "bad" files on my external shared drive, files and folders that I could not change or delete, I have finally had success.
My stepson who is a computer whiz came to visit and provided this solution:
He defined a administrative user in Windows exactly equal to the owner of folders on the the external drive that I could not manage- (EXTERNALDRIVE\admin). Other owners; (Unix User\nobody) and (EXTERNALDRIVE\everyone were OK I could manipulate them -move delete etc..He made this owner - admin - part of WORKGROUP using the Western Digital user interface. With this ID he copied the folders with bad files to a temp folder, deleted the bad folder and renamed the temp folder to the name of the original folder. That corrected the bad owners and provided write access where I previously had only read access.
He had no thought on how the ownership got corrupted by ROBOCOPY but I am very happy with his solution.
I post this in the hope that it may help others.
