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From: Peter Lu on 5 Apr 2008 19:42
Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a utility or script
that would go through my files and directories
(after they were migrated from one partition to
another) and assign them the ownerships and
permissions as intended by Windows? I used a
"transfering" OS to copy the data from the old
partition (drive) to the new one, and the
ownerships/permissons got lost (shows in
Cygwin as 4294967295/4294967295 [all 1's]),
but the "transferred" OS boots and runs fine,
probably because 4294967295 means owned by
or usable by everyone.

Worse come to worst, I go through the file
system manually to fix things.

Thanks for hep and advice.

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From: Arno Wagner on 5 Apr 2008 21:36
Previously Peter Lu <swift(a)theworld.com> wrote:
> Hi,

> Does anyone know if there is a utility or script
> that would go through my files and directories
> (after they were migrated from one partition to
> another) and assign them the ownerships and
> permissions as intended by Windows? I used a
> "transfering" OS to copy the data from the old
> partition (drive) to the new one, and the
> ownerships/permissons got lost (shows in
> Cygwin as 4294967295/4294967295 [all 1's]),
> but the "transferred" OS boots and runs fine,
> probably because 4294967295 means owned by
> or usable by everyone.

> Worse come to worst, I go through the file
> system manually to fix things.

> Thanks for hep and advice.

I think this cannot be done automatically, since the
permission information is just not there in the copy.

Arno
From: Ofnuts on 8 Apr 2008 07:34
Peter Lu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a utility or script
> that would go through my files and directories
> (after they were migrated from one partition to
> another) and assign them the ownerships and
> permissions as intended by Windows? I used a
> "transfering" OS to copy the data from the old
> partition (drive) to the new one, and the
> ownerships/permissons got lost (shows in
> Cygwin as 4294967295/4294967295 [all 1's]),
> but the "transferred" OS boots and runs fine,
> probably because 4294967295 means owned by
> or usable by everyone.
>
> Worse come to worst, I go through the file
> system manually to fix things.
>
> Thanks for hep and advice.
>

Top directory, "Properties", "Security" tab, "Addvanced" button",
"owner" tab, and don't forget the checkbox at the bottom to change
obwer ship of everything in the subtree. You may also need to play with
the "Effective permissions" tab to give yourself the right to grap
ownership.
From: Peter Lu on 9 Apr 2008 16:07
In article <65qnp6F2h3v3tU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Arno Wagner <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:

>I think this cannot be done automatically, since the
>permission information is just not there in the copy.
>
>Arno

Thanks. I did a Web search and found:

http://www.analogduck.com/main/subinacl
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E8BA3E56-D8FE-4A91-93CF-ED6985E3927B&displaylang=en

Works pretty well, with the /playfile mode. There was a small
snag with the .txt file that is created, which had a few bad
entries that caused play-back to fail. With some hand-editting
and aid of a custom C-program to massage things, the .txt file
could be effectively cleaned up to be played back properly.

All is well now.
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