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[โ€“] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In which case you could also go right-click -> properties -> security -> advanced -> click change where it lists the owner.

It's not as quick but hey, mouse-driven UI exists.

[โ€“] BleakBluets@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I think I had this guy's exact issue and maybe even stumbled upon his comment in that Microsoft support forum thread. It looks very familiar, but I could have just seen the meme before.

My problem was that I needed to do this for 100+ files, so using the UI individually for each file was out of the question. The eventual solution I found was in this tutorial for adding a context menu entry that changes folder/file ownership recursively. It's been very useful!