Deleting User docs folder for leavers....

[Sir]

Please can you point me in the right direction?I really need the space back from the year 11's who left last June. Have it all backed up elsewhere for a few months. I keep getting permission issues logged in as domain admin on file server on every folder in the Leavers' folder. 160 students. During their time here, the file server was migrated and they have an Old Files(Migrated) folder with profiles, etc that seem to be causing the issues.

You need admin permission- [continue], you need permission to perform [Try again/ Cancel]. Have taken ownership but does not propegate properly with inherit checkbox checked, etc. Am i to use Set ACL or somesuch and, if so, can you point me in thright direction for a quick guide to get this done?

 

Happy October,

Edited October 2, 2018 by Sir

[TechMonkey]

I normally take ownership and propagate and then cascade permissions down to ensure all is OK. I normally do this from the server as remotely can have odd affects.

[jthompson]

Maybe try doing it in halves to narrow down the folder(s) that are failing. It could be that overly long filenames squirrelled away that are to blame.

And yes, work directly on the drive on the server, not via a share.

[3s-gtech]

Sounds like you have (or used to have) the option set on folder redirection to give the user exclusive rights to the folder. This option is stupid and hateful. I managed to fix it many years back when I first moved student home areas, using chown and then NTFSFix.

[FishCustard]

takeown /r /f X:\Path\To\Folder\On\Server
icacls X:\Path\To\Folder\On\Server /grant $adminuser:(F)(OI)(CI)
mkdir c:\temp\empty
robocopy /mir c:\temp\empty X:\Path\To\Folder\On\Server
rmdir /s /q c:\temp\empty

Kills long paths and other such nonsense that Win32 can create but Explorer can't handle...

Edited October 2, 2018 by FishCustard

[Sir]

Much thanks to all of you. Sorted with a mix of most answers.... You are all great!