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"Unable to display current owner"

September 21, 2014 2:35:41 PM

I'm in the adminstrators group and should have access everywhere on my machine, but there is one important folder with thousands of subfolders -- all of which deny me access. In the Properties/Security tab (Advanced) for these folders, the owner cannot be displayed. In the Owner field it just says "Unable to display current owner." I can manually fix each of these folders individually in the Permissions tab by having them inherit permissions from the parent folders and pass them on to their children, but this is not an option for thousands of folders. I then tried to take ownership recursively from the parent folder with the following command:

takeown /F .\foldername /a /r /d y

This appears to work, as everything under the parent folder streams down my screen with it's permissions "Successfully" changed to the Administrators group (it takes a couple of minutes), but then when I go and check the sub-folders, I still get "Unable to display current owner" and must go in and change permissions manually for every damned folder and file, including the files in child folders. Even if I issue this same command in Powershell as Administrator, the result is the same. I really don't get it and am thinking my account has become corrupted somewhere. Does ANYBODY know what's going on here?

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