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How can I change permissions for the folder including subfolders?

I have an external hard drive and I did something which I shouldn't have done, and I am annoyed that many files are prompting me about Administrator permissions to move a folder. They are regular files.

How do I reset all the permission on the external hard drive?

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Do you just want to set all file permissions to something specific? When you say 'reset', I think of 'revert' - which I'm not sure is exactly what you want..? – Doc Aug 9 '11 at 20:15
What would be considered not a regular file? – joeqwerty Aug 9 '11 at 21:06
joeqwerty: thing that the OS depends on being there. Such as files in program/ or windows/. This is a extern HD for data files (audios, videos, backed up code, etc).@Doc: I do mean revert. I want any user to add/remove/move files like it was originally – acidzombie24 Aug 9 '11 at 21:29
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closed as exact duplicate by techie007, Randolf Richardson, Hello71, Kyle, studiohack♦ Aug 9 '11 at 23:57

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To reset all permissions, run these 2 commands in successsion

first navigate to the drive letter, example is D

D:

icacls * /T /Q /C /RESET

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As answered in comments of this being a duplicate, use cacls with the subdirectory option to go through subfolders as well, with /G:Everyone. So the final command would be: CACLS x:\*.* /G:Everyone /T

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