¿Cómo restablecer los permisos NTFS para una carpeta?

How to reset NTFS permissions for a folder?

Using the built-in icacls.exe console tool, you can quickly reset the NTFS permissions for a file or folder. This tool also has a feature where you can reset the permissions for files in a folder and sub-folders, recursively.

Run the following command to reset permissions for a file: icacls “full path to your file” /reset. To reset permissions for a folder: icacls “full path to the folder” /reset. To reset permissions for a folder, its files, and subfolders, run the command icacls “full path to the folder” /reset /t /c /l.

This is the step where you can restore NTFS file permissions. Decide where you want to restore first, either original location or new location. Then, click the setting icon, tick ” Restore NTFS Permissions ” and hit “OK” to exit. At last, click ” Start Restore “.

The files in NTFS drives have a Security attribute comparing to those in FAT32 formatted drives. You can access it with the approach of this: open a file in NTFS partition > right click it and select Properties > General > Advance. You could see two options there: File attributes and Compress or Encrypt attributes.

If you are interested in managing NTFS permissions, refer to the following article: In short, there are two types of permissions – explicit permissions and inherited permissions. There are two types of permissions: explicit permissions and inherited permissions.

Then launch the command ICACLS * /T /Q /C /RESET. ICACLS will reset the permissions of all the folders, files and subfolders. After a while, depending on the number of file, the permissions will be fixed. Sometimes, you may need to take the ownership of a tree of folders. You can use the command takeown /R /F * before launching the ICACLS.