Comments on: How to Take Ownership of a File or Folder Using Command-Line in Windows 7 and Vista

By: Kamal Ravichandran

Kamal Ravichandran — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:26:58 +0000

Thanks a lot..was searching for a long time to get this kind of solution

By: Golimar

Golimar — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:44:31 +0000

Thanks Ramesh!
You just saved me from a very newbie user who screwed up things badly, this was part of the solution to get things back on track :)

By: Mulds

Mulds — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:11:09 +0000

Needed access to pictures on hdd from dead laptop, connected via usb/hdd. Tried the above, but couldn’t get access, until I added /a to the command.

Great tip otherwise

By: Lazy

Lazy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:21:53 +0000

Thanks mate… worked perfect…
just a note to everyone else… u dont need to assign to Admin, it can be any username

By: ag3nt42

ag3nt42 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:49:40 +0000

If you took ownership and still can’t do anything to the file.. it is because you don’t have any permissions on it yet. It sounds stupid.. but you need to take ownership and also grant permissions using the ICACLS functions I used this method to recover files on a HDD from a crashed PC that had some corrupted OS files and thus was not bootable, this method was a life saver as setting permissions via mouse click forms was a huge pain in the ass spread across 1000 some files. I even had issues with permissions not rolling down the directories making me have to click on each file to change permissions.
so thanks for posting this

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:21:15 +0000

Stupid question, but does the command-line method for Win7 grant permanent access to the file/folder? Or will that ownership be lost upon restart? Just curious, and also if that ownership can be reversed via similar syntax?

-Thanks in advance

By: MO

MO — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:01:44 +0000

I have at least one file for which this doesn’t work.
“Take ownership” pretends that all is OK, but it is not possible to rename or delete file.

By: bene

bene — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:26:56 +0000

Maybe it was a German, who developed this tool:
If you use /f folder /r /d j (for german: JA), then there`s no error!
At least in my german win7 it works … ;-)

By: Castor

Castor — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:05:44 +0000

Sweet.

Thanks!

By: Ramesh Srinivasan

Ramesh Srinivasan — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 03:14:21 +0000

@BuddyBoy: Your syntax is incorrect. That’s not what’s specified in the article.