Permissions Inheritance

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John

Hi,

I have a network mapped drive share
called "X:\Operations\". This folder contains many sub-
folders, each with its own permissions inheritance. There
is another folder inside it called "HR", which also
contains a lot of sub-folders with different permissions
inheritance.

The X:\Operations\HR\ folder was set to not allow
inheritance from parent. I accidentally added a check mark
next to this option and now I think all my permissions
inside the HR folder are not as I intended.

Now, I want to return everything as it was by removing the
check mark from this option. Should I use copy or remove?
Will this return everything exactly as it was?

Your help is greatly appreciated.
 
You should carefully examine the current permissions at that
folder where inheritance used to be broken, and take good
notes on what is applied explicitly at that node and what is
there that is being inherited. Use the Advanced tab.
When you change the check mark to again not inherit you
will either end up with no permissions (you say not to copy)
or you end up with all existing permissions but with none of
them inherited.
So, say copy, and then delete all the permissions that your
notes say were being inherited, leaving exactly what was
explicitly set on the node and none other.
Also, be sure you do not check the box in the Adv dialog to
have the new permissions applied to the entire subtree, as
if you do so you will wipe out any places further down where
inheritance is currently being overridden.
 
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