From: Ellen K. 

MS ought to add permissions stuff to the FileSystemObject object model.
That would help both admins and developers.

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:23:34 -0500, Richard B. 
wrote in message :

>On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 18:26:08 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>
>>How much room do you have on the drive? A move operation will keep
>>permissions, a copy will inherit the permissions of the folder you copy
>>into. So you could copy everything into your test folder then delete the
>>originals and move the copy back out provided it's all done on a single
>>drive (if you span drives it all works like copy).
>
>It has enough physical space.  Which is a little tricky is subfolders
>have different permissions, so wouldn't they just inherit the from the
>top?
>
>I'm thinking since the subfolders have common names, i.e. "CDOC," then
>I could do a search on all of them and change the permissions on all
>of them at once.  A little time consuming but not too bad.
>
>What I'd like to have is a utility that would read the permission of
>my test "CDOC" subfolder and apply those same permissions to all
>"CDOC" folders.
>
>- Richard

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