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I have several hundred folders in a directory where somehow, the permissions have become all messed up. When I'm trying to take ownership with my domain admin account, I tick the box which says Replace owner on subcontainers and objects but the resulting changes do not apply to many of the sub-folders. I also want to use the Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object.
I then have to go to each one (and there are quite literally hundreds) and set the owner on each one. This is a daunting task and there must be some way of achieving this en-masse. Currently I'm having to click the Continue button for hundreds of failed 'take ownership' attempts.
I've looked at the ICACLS and takeown commands but I can't figure out what I can use to force ownership onto folders although I have been able to bypass prematurely wearing out my mouse button with the /C switch.
Can anyone help please?

Thanks in advance.

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Windows Explorer has many problems dealing with a deep nested directory layout, especially when changing owner/ACL.

I strongly suggest using SetACL Studio or the relative command line program SetACL. They are both free utilities which do their job. Compared to them, CACLS, ICACLS, takeown and the likes seem relatively primitive tools.

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