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NTFS is the primary file system of all modern versions of Windows.

NTFS is the primary file system of all modern versions of Windows and is largely backward-and-forward-compatible in all supported versions. It is a journaling file system which makes it robust in the face of system failure, and in Vista/Windows Server 2008 and later offers support for transactions. It supports transparent compression and encryption and full access-control-list-based security.

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File permission issue - You need permission to perform this action

This is a very strange issue related to a dfs replicated folder. The share in question is shared with "Everyone" with full access and permissions are applied to sub-folders using ACLs. Three groups are applied to each folder (Full access to a file…
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Add NTFS Permission only to folders/files with inheritance disable

Our file servers have been around for years, and as such, the permissions have gotten a bit crazy. To start the clean-up effort, I would to make sure our "File Server Admins" group has Full Control to all files folders on our file servers. I tried…
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NTFS: When does Windows consider the newly added file exist in the system? When the writing process starts or ends?

When the file is being written to the disk, does the Windows System already consider the file exists or it waits until the writing process is done? Basically, I have a script that checks if a directory has newly added files per minute. If there's…
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ReFS and block cloning on Windows 10 Enterprise

I am using Windows 10 Enterprise (20H2) and setup a storage space of multiple VHXD containers and a REFS formatted disk. I am interested in the block cloning feature, less the explicit dedup command. Does the explorer support block cloning by…
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Is it safe to defragment a file that's being used?

On Windows with NTFS, is it safe to defragment files that are currently being written to and read from other processes? I believe I may be hitting into an issue with an extremely fragmented large SQLite database. So I'm thinking of possible…
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Would a flat or tree-like file structure allow for faster fetching of files by Path?

Would a flat file structure allow for faster locating/fetching of files by Path in an NTFS (Windows 10 File System) or would it essentially be as efficient as a highly structured tree with a bunch of subfolders? I'm using node.js to fetch a few…
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Migrate FSMO roles during FRS to DFSR migration

Hello everyone and I hope everyone is well. I have a bit of a special case at one of my clients, we are in the middle of a migration from FRS to DFSR, (step 2) and have to go to step 3, eliminated. The customer would like to wait a little before…
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NTFS permissions inheriting incorrectly as "this folder only"

I have a full directory tree that was migrated from another server. I've created top level folders with the necessary permissions that I wish to propagate to all descendant files and folders. However, inheritance is only working for a single…
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How determine what the volume is

So, to the point, I've been getting this on a 2016 server hosting hyper v: A corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume \\?\Volume{1c63d7ca-0000-0000-0000-f01500000000}. The Master File Table (MFT) contains a corrupted file…
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Windows utility to delete files and directories

I'm looking for a command line utility to delete NTFS files and directories. And I want it to work: close handles, recurse, never fail, never quit, super-kill stubborn holders of handles, everything. Any suggestions?
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SeBackupPrivilege, but cannot read all files

I am trying to read full directories independent of the current file-permissions. But even though I do have "SeBackupPrivilege", the following code leads to an "UnauthorizedAccessException". How can this be? //Create the test-directory. string…
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Audio books image building fails on Windows Server 2019 Core (Hypervizor and VM)

We are migrating from a 2008R2 server to 2019 core standard with Hyper-v role. 2019 Server VM's with GUI. We burn audio books with files shared from 2008R2. Now I try do the same, from a Virtualized 2019 server. The PC's (windows 7) that are…
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Windows Perms - ADOMAIN\AMACHINE$ - means what (precisely)?

I've got a task running on AMACHINE under the SYSTEM account. There's a shared directory on BMACHINE which is visible on AMACHINE and that shared directory allows r+w to a username ADOMAIN\AMACHINE$. I believe that ADOMAIN\AMACHINE$ means any users…
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How do I properly order NTFS ACL using icacls?

I have a directory structure 4 subdirectories deep: [Department] -> [Job #] -> [Docs] -> [EMail] At the [Docs] level I have 4 groups inherited from root and one group (st_JobDocs) explicit. All inherit to subfolders. st_JobAdmin: grant F st_Job_R:…
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File Share Issue

My company is experiencing a number of odd behaviors with our file server (Windows 2008 R2). One issue I'm running into is with permissions, specifically permissions for the user group:Domain Admins (which I am a member). When I try to access the…
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