Thanks - couldn't change ownership at all
Security tab missing for folder in explorer  - ntfschown, cacls, xcacls and doing an rm (as filer root with "priv set advanced" on) all wouldn't work.
 
Did find a workaround  -
Created at new home folder for the user and copied all his files to it.
After he disconnected, I was able to rename the original home folder.
The rename did something as I was then able to delete the problem folder afterwards.
Never seen this happen before.
 

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From: Holland, William L [mailto:hollandwl@state.gov]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 11:35 AM
To: Warkentin, Grant
Subject: RE: Monday morning Question - NTFS ACL resetting.

If you are an Administrator you should be able to change ownership to the Administrators group.  After doing that you can change the security.

From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:Grant.Warkentin@calgary.ca]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:26 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Monday morning Question - NTFS ACL resetting.

I have a user that has been messing with his NT security in his home folder.
He has managed to lock out  administrators from access to a specific folder.

Now he wants the folder restored - this is do-able from a snapshot but I have to put the contents in a different folder.

Problem:
I cannot delete the bad folder.
I cannot take Ownership of the bad folder.
I cannot even view the ACLs on the bad folder.

You folks know of a way to remove this folder? 
We have the volume set to NTFS security.

Must be  a Monday - cannot seem to think of any methods to remove this folder.

Thanks.


Grant Warkentin
System Administrator II
City of Calgary - Information Technology
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