P
Palazzo
Hi,
I have a folder within my Documents folder where the ownership and inheritance keep changing, preventing me for editing files in that folder until I manually fix it.
Most folders under Documents are owned by my Windows account (my Windows email address) and Inherit permissions at a drive level.
The folder just show 4 inherited permissions:
Admins:Full Control
SYSTEM:Full Control
Authenticated Users:Modify
Users:Read and Execute
But, even if I set this particular folder to the same permissions the owner gets changed to the Administrators group, the inheritance is completely removed, and the folder changed to specific permissions:
The 4 above become folder specific, and 4 new permissions are added:
SYSTEM:Special
Administrators:None
Authenticated Users
elete
Users:None
And net, I can't make any changes to the folder contents. I can manually remove these, change the owner a reactivate the inheritance, and all is good, but minutes later, it reverts to the Administrators owner and non-inherited permissions.
This does not happen to other folders under Documents if I edit files i there.
Now, the only oddity about this folder is that I have been backing it up using Google Drive (i.e. I've selected it as the only folder to be backed up to Google Drive on this computer). As I suspected Google Backup and Sync was the culprit, I removed the folder from this (Although left Backup and Sync syncing the Google Drive).
However, this doesn't seem to have addressed the issue.
My main question is, is it possible to track the process that is changing the ownership/permissions. I've tried setting up auditing, but this doesn't seem to be giving me what I need, so I'd like some guidance on how I can best get that information.
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I have a folder within my Documents folder where the ownership and inheritance keep changing, preventing me for editing files in that folder until I manually fix it.
Most folders under Documents are owned by my Windows account (my Windows email address) and Inherit permissions at a drive level.
The folder just show 4 inherited permissions:
Admins:Full Control
SYSTEM:Full Control
Authenticated Users:Modify
Users:Read and Execute
But, even if I set this particular folder to the same permissions the owner gets changed to the Administrators group, the inheritance is completely removed, and the folder changed to specific permissions:
The 4 above become folder specific, and 4 new permissions are added:
SYSTEM:Special
Administrators:None
Authenticated Users
eleteUsers:None
And net, I can't make any changes to the folder contents. I can manually remove these, change the owner a reactivate the inheritance, and all is good, but minutes later, it reverts to the Administrators owner and non-inherited permissions.
This does not happen to other folders under Documents if I edit files i there.
Now, the only oddity about this folder is that I have been backing it up using Google Drive (i.e. I've selected it as the only folder to be backed up to Google Drive on this computer). As I suspected Google Backup and Sync was the culprit, I removed the folder from this (Although left Backup and Sync syncing the Google Drive).
However, this doesn't seem to have addressed the issue.
My main question is, is it possible to track the process that is changing the ownership/permissions. I've tried setting up auditing, but this doesn't seem to be giving me what I need, so I'd like some guidance on how I can best get that information.
Continue reading...