Finding all files belonging to different user in XP Pro

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Mike Fields

I have a minor problem in my network -- when I set my laptop
up several years ago, I created my account as "Mike" -- all my
other accounts are "Mikey". I want to change the underlying
account so it matches the rest of the machines in my
network. I have researched the issue of creating the new user,
copying the profile etc. Also how to take ownership of the
files so that my new "self" owns the files. What I have not been
able to find the answer to is "how do I find all files owned by
'Mike' so I can take ownership of them ??". If the account
names are really the same, it makes sharing files etc much
easier (yes, I know I can change the "viewed" name, but that
does not change the actual account).

XP Pro, SP2 and I have full admin on all machines.

It's easy in Unix using the find command to find all the files
and change the owner on one line - just can't find the key
to doing it in windows (no, not windows bashing, just
wishing to get the equiv. of the find command here !)
 
Mike said:
I have a minor problem in my network -- when I set my laptop
up several years ago, I created my account as "Mike" -- all my
other accounts are "Mikey". I want to change the underlying
account so it matches the rest of the machines in my
network. I have researched the issue of creating the new user,
copying the profile etc. Also how to take ownership of the
files so that my new "self" owns the files. What I have not been
able to find the answer to is "how do I find all files owned by
'Mike' so I can take ownership of them ??". If the account
names are really the same, it makes sharing files etc much
easier (yes, I know I can change the "viewed" name, but that
does not change the actual account).

XP Pro, SP2 and I have full admin on all machines.

It's easy in Unix using the find command to find all the files
and change the owner on one line - just can't find the key
to doing it in windows (no, not windows bashing, just
wishing to get the equiv. of the find command here !)
Click to expand...

It is doubtful - since you run as an admin - you will have to take ownership
of anything.
 
[snip]
It's easy in Unix using the find command to find all the files
and change the owner on one line - just can't find the key
to doing it in windows (no, not windows bashing, just
wishing to get the equiv. of the find command here !)
Click to expand...

Maybe a combination of DIR /Q, FIND (or FINDSTR), and SUBINACL can help.
 
Michael Bednarek said:
[snip]
It's easy in Unix using the find command to find all the files
and change the owner on one line - just can't find the key
to doing it in windows (no, not windows bashing, just
wishing to get the equiv. of the find command here !)
Click to expand...

Maybe a combination of DIR /Q, FIND (or FINDSTR), and SUBINACL can
help.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the feedback. I did copy use the copy the profile method
and it worked fairly clean -- only one little glitch somehow, palm
desktop
keeps a pointer to where the .msi file was when it was installed and
is not clever enough to let you do a clean install again -- the full
download
from palm wants to use the installer that is off in a temp file under
the
old user (even if you uninstall it first). Strange.

mikey
 
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