Hi,
I am looking for some help with applying permissions on a very deep and complex folder structure.
basically, I am trying to use Cacls to permission a top level folder and then push those permissions down through the data structure but it fails when it gets to the 255 character limit. I was wondering if anyone has a tool (ideally free) or script
that can get around this problem?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks

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Hello,
That is simply because there is limitations if you exceed a certain limit for the length of folders. See that:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/53779044-d453-458b-b8c4-96d41711ea69/

So, you should keep using shorter names to be fully supported.


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Hello,
That is simply because there is limitations if you exceed a certain limit for the length of folders. See that:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprogeneral/thread/53779044-d453-458b-b8c4-96d41711ea69/

So, you should keep using shorter names to be fully supported.


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Hi,
I'm aware of what is causing the problem, unfortunately, I work in a large organisation where the users are not so aware but have millions of historical files and folders in their complicated data structures.
My immediate issue at the moment is trying to get the permissions sorted out. Since posting this, I have tried icacls and, although not perfect, it does a better job than cacls\xcacls. It would still be interesting to see if there is another
solution out

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