Corrupted files/folders

Posted on Friday, February 08, 2008

A month or so ago my VM completely hard locked. I was working on Graffiti and had just created a category called 'test'. I had no choice but to force the vm closed and reopen. When I booted back up the system ran chkdsk. It fixed a lot of stuff, but 'test' was sititng in that source directory saying 'access denied' when I would try to browse through it. I thought it was no big deal really... who cares about a folder. Well... everytime I go to check in my code, I have to ignore this 'test' folder - it was driving me crazy.

So the folder is corrupted, must be easy to fix...

I tried Unlocker, MoveOnBoot, you name it. Atleast 3-4 other programs. Nothing would delete this damn folder. Finally, I found a command line utility called cacls.exe that is supposed to change the permissions, still didn't work.

Fortunately, there is a gem in the win2k resource kit called subinacl. This little utility worked perfectly to change the permissions back to my user so I could finally delete it. It goes a little something like this:

subinacl /subdirectories "\\?\c:\path\folder\*.*" /setowner=jayme /grant=jayme=f

The test folder can burn in hell.

Jayme

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