New to Sharepoint companyweb and deleted all folder permissions by mistake
Hello. I am just delving into the world of Sharepoint and testing to see if it will help our company meet it's needs for accessing files remotely as well as giving us collaberation abilities we currently don't have. We recently purchased a new Windows 2008 Small Business Server which includes Sharepoint 3.0 and I've been messing around with the companyweb page. My current goal is to emulate how we are using network drives. There is a drive for each department and then a shared drive where common files for eveyrone are stored. Rights are maintained using security groups. In the companyweb, inside the Document's section I created a new library named "Department Files" then within that created folders for Accounting, Customer Service, HR etc. Being completely new to Sharepoint I was editing the permissions to the Accounting folder but forgot to add the domain administrator before deleting the existing rights. Now the folder is no longer visible and I can't figure out how to edit the rights to it. The permissions that were removed were: CompanyWeb Members, CompanyWeb Owners, and CompanyWeb Visitors. Where can I go to see this hidden directory and change/restore the permissions? Since this is all testing stuff I can also delete it and start again. There isn't any info that I need to worry about retaining at this point yet. Thanks
September 9th, 2010 7:39pm

If you are a site collection administrator you should still be able to get to it. Are you signed in as one? vr, SharePointNinja
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September 9th, 2010 7:53pm

That did it. I was looking in Active Directory for Site Collection Admin. I found it in the application Management interface. After I set myself as site collection admin i was able to find the folders again. Thanks for the help. I"m off to break something else!
September 9th, 2010 8:31pm

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