Ownership after an account has been deleted!

Hi,

I was renaming an old work account, the other day, to something more sensible when a thought struck me.

If there were many directories and files created by the old account, who owns them after that account has been deleted?

A check shows that they are still in fact owned, but my question is who is the owner (my machine shows the owner as S-1-5-21-...... etc)?

Is there a simply way for the old owner S-1-5-21.. to be replaced with a new owner without the need to inspect the properties of every directory and sub-directory on the machine?

Are there any other tools available that, for example, provides a tree view of your PC's directories and files in terms of their owners? Perhaps this can already be done from Windows (but I haven't found where yet)?

Regards Farmer Jo

 

Hi,

Yes Cut & Paste works fine if there are a small number of folders to change (like the ones in the Program Files directory). Unfortunatly there are many entries scattered throughout the installation including the Windows directory.

What would be useful is a utility which simply scanned the system and then changed the owner where appropriate.

Any ideas if such a utility exists?

Regards Farmer Jo