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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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Windows7 IIS7: can't turn off read-only flag for InetPub\wwwroot. Can't edit website files!

I finally got PHP running on Windows 7 IIS7 but now for the life of me can't edit files in wwwroot because my editor keeps saying "You don't have permission to save to this location... save in Pete instead?" It's going to be a very long…
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Rsync command to synchronize two NTFS drives?

I have a 2 1.5TB drives containing numerous video, audio, documents etc that I would like to essentially mirror to 2 other drives for backup. I would like to do this using rsync (as it seems the most appropriate thing to use). What command should I…
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How to delete a file with a space at end of the name and hidden attributes?

We have a hidden file with a space at the end of the file name. Usually, I take ownership of the file, then use a command line rename with the 8.3 (dir/x) file name. However, rename doesn't acknowledge hidden or system files. Any ideas on how to…
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How bad is it to use a virtual file system with VMWare?

IT is running a series of VMs that we'd like to see optimized further: if the VMs' are Windows XP, storing their NTFS images out to the virtual disk (ext3) provided by Linux/VMWare, how much of a hit are we taking - as opposed to having a partition…
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What causes NTFS index corruption?

I have a relatively new hard disk and it has been working fine all this while. Today, however, on starting Windows a few of my applications failed to load some DLLs. Windows ran chkdsk upon restart and reported a dozen of index issues which it fixed…
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How NTFS folder access is checked in a Active Directory domain?

I understand that both NTFS folders and AD objects use security descriptors and DACL’s to check user/process access MS Learn - How access check works However, how does the access check resolves ACE’s for nested AD groups? For example: AD group…
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Why is "traverse folder" and "execute file" a combined permission?

The Advanced permissions dialog for an NTFS directory lists one of the permissions as "Traverse folder / execute file". These seem like two separate and completely unrelated concepts to me. Can anyone provide a rationale/explanation of why these two…
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File Share in Windows Domain

How do you assign a single user (or a couple users) to a shared subfolder but restrict it for others? My company and I are running into an issue with how our current file share environment was setup but instead of trying to fix the problems, we're…
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How to restore missing space in NTFS file systems

I have a 40 GB USB hard drive formatted with NTFS on a PC running Windows XP Pro, SP3. I am trying to free as much space as possible. Windows Explorer tells me that I have about 200 MB of files on the drive (showing hidden and system files). When…
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Cannot save Office files on shared network drive without delete permission

I have a group that ALL employees are assigned to. I have the CREATOR user set the same way. They have all the RW permissions but no delete. Everything works as expected, however, Office related products can't save. They throw a permission error. My…
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NTFS: User can edit/delete files without rights

I have a very strange NTFS rights phenomenon on a fileserver and I cannot find my mistake, pulling my hair out for hours now. What am I missing? My goal is: User from Group-A should be able to write new files/foldes into a folder ("add files").…
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Determine target of NTFS reparse point

I have a Windows 2012 R2 server running as a VM (on top of KVM/Libvirt). It has an extra "internal" disk defined as F: If I snapshot the Linux-based host's logical volume representing F: and mount it on the host I get many files tagged as being an…
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Is it possible to list all permissions where I don't have access

I'm looking for a way to recursively go through my entire file share ( fairly large 3TB of files ) and list out all files/folders that I don't have access to. Due to a migration and some errors on large paths ( more than 255 characters ) we've found…
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Force NTFS permissions inheritance for newly created files

Does anybody know a way to force that all files that get created inside some folder inherit the NTFS permissions of that folder. The problem is the following: I have a third party software that is creating PDF files inside a certain folder, but the…
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How do you copy huge (millions) directory trees in Windows?

I have a NTFS partition that has a folder that holds over 5 million directories. Each directory contains more directories and then files. I am moving to SSD and I need to copy all these data over to the new drive, but I am running into…
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