Showing user profile sizes without taking ownership

[Jamo]

Ah okay kewl, in which case it works!

Just ran it in a batch file as i've said in my above post and it's worked fine, logged on the account i tested it on on one machine, created a folder on the desktop, logged off and logged on on another machine and the folder appears, no warnings about not finding profiles or anything like that so it would appear it's worked fine, i just get a little nervous when things work this easily! Wondering what it's going to break when i apply it to the whole profile folder (sods law)!! Might try it with a few select kids/teachers accounts i know get a lot of hammer and see if anyone complains!

Should be all good Just make sure that permissions are only added and none are taken away! You should end up with the administrators group having full control but the owner shoudl remain as the current owner of the profile itself

[Pyroman]

Treesizefree is great for sorting out the profile size problems... once you get the permissions sorted, you'll wonder why you didn't have it years ago!

It looks pretty good, cheers, currently using windirstat which has the bonus of bring about 630kb

[Pyroman]

Should be all good Just make sure that permissions are only added and none are taken away! You should end up with the administrators group having full control but the owner shoudl remain as the current owner of the profile itself

Cheers, just checked that it says owner is still the user of the profile so it all looks good, going to roll it out overnight to a select group of users and see what happens. =D thanks for all your help guys, i've thanked posts!

[Pyroman]

Pants! It's stopped working, tested it on 1 profile, then all i did was change the profile from d:\profiles\testprofile to d:\profiles\anothertestprofile and it's coming up with

C:\>permissions.bat

C:\>CACLS D:\PROFILES\testaccount /E /T /C /G "Domain Admins":F
 ACCESS_DENIED: D:\PROFILES\testaccount
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

C:\>permissions.bat

C:\>CACLS D:\PROFILES\testaccount /E /T /C /G "DomainAdmins":F
No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.

C:\>

I chanaged the bat file between the 2 runs from Domain admins to DomainAdmins

[jinnantonnixx]

Pants indeed.

Just run it on D:\PROFILES. It will percolate through the subfolders. Don't use "DomainAdmins" (with no space) it must be "Domain Admins".

[Jamo]

Pants! It's stopped working, tested it on 1 profile, then all i did was change the profile from d:\profiles\testprofile to d:\profiles\anothertestprofile and it's coming up with

C:\>permissions.bat

C:\>CACLS D:\PROFILES\testaccount /E /T /C /G "Domain Admins":F
 ACCESS_DENIED: D:\PROFILES\testaccount
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

C:\>permissions.bat

C:\>CACLS D:\PROFILES\testaccount /E /T /C /G "DomainAdmins":F
No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.

C:\>

I chanaged the bat file between the 2 runs from Domain admins to DomainAdmins

Yeah as Jinnanonnixx says it gives you an access denied message because you are running it too far up the folder tree if you see what I mean. Basically you are adding yourself to the permissions on that folder as it runs, so you have to start from a folder which you ALREADY have full control over otherwise you will be epic denied.

[Pyroman]

Ah okay, i'm just being a big girl trying to test it on unused profiles, need to bite the bullet and run it on the main profiles folder then, eek!

[Pyroman]

Update on this, i've tried running it straight on the profiles folder and it's giving me access denied still :-S confused