Script issue to change folder permission

Damien360

Hi Folks

I have a work PC and am trying to free space. IT (in India) gave me a script to run to change the permissions on the folders to allow me delete them. There are many folders but the problem folder is always the same name in each subsequent folder and always in the same location within each folder in c:/chem32

I tried running this in CMD but got an error - %%d was unexpected at this time

Can anyone help here

IT response below

run the following script. This will change the folder permissions. (Adapt the correct drive letter)
After the script was running it should be possible to delete the VcsCache folder.

REM remove “invisiblity” of vcscaches, the input folder must be the root of instruments (it looks for vcscache exactly on the 3rd level deep)

FOR /D %%d IN ("c:\chem32*") DO FOR /D %%b IN ("%%d\*") DO FOR /D %%c IN ("%%b\vcscache*") DO (
if /I "%%~nxc"=="vcscache" (
cacls "%%c" /E /R BUILTIN\Users Everyone
echo. %%c
))

Thanks

28064212

Don't run it in a prompt, save it as a .bat script and run that

Damien360

28064212 wrote: »

Don't run it in a prompt, save it as a .bat script and run that

Thanks. I will try that.

Damien360

28064212 wrote: »

Don't run it in a prompt, save it as a .bat script and run that

many thanks. That worked a treat.