I took ownership of a external USB drive folder using takeown/icacls command (now it shows my computer name...











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  • do you have access to the machine that owned it?
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I used takeown/icacls using post at Can't delete folder, need permission from adminstrator?



I now want to revert permissions to the original USB drive ownership. How can I do that?










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  • do you have access to the machine that owned it?
    – Keltari
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  • @Keltari yes, have access to machine.
    – Joe Black
    2 days ago















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I used takeown/icacls using post at Can't delete folder, need permission from adminstrator?



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I used takeown/icacls using post at Can't delete folder, need permission from adminstrator?



I now want to revert permissions to the original USB drive ownership. How can I do that?







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  • do you have access to the machine that owned it?
    – Keltari
    Nov 19 at 5:17










  • @Keltari yes, have access to machine.
    – Joe Black
    2 days ago




















  • do you have access to the machine that owned it?
    – Keltari
    Nov 19 at 5:17










  • @Keltari yes, have access to machine.
    – Joe Black
    2 days ago


















do you have access to the machine that owned it?
– Keltari
Nov 19 at 5:17




do you have access to the machine that owned it?
– Keltari
Nov 19 at 5:17












@Keltari yes, have access to machine.
– Joe Black
2 days ago






@Keltari yes, have access to machine.
– Joe Black
2 days ago

















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