Windows – see Folder Permissions on Windows in a Tree View

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Is there a way to see folder/file permissions in a collapsable tree view in Windows?

What I think I need is something like:

+ folder1 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[R--],Administrators[RWX]]
+ folder2 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[RWX],JoesWife[R--]Administrators[RWX]]

And so on for lots of folders.

Ideally the tool would do something like below; when the "+" is clicked:

- folder1
|---+ Subfolder1 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[R--],Administrators[RWX]]
|---+ Subfolder2 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[R--],Administrators[RWX]]
|
+ folder2 - EntAdmins[RWX],JoeBloggs[RWX],JoesWife[R--]Administrators[RWX]]

Does something like this exist for Windows? I need to scan hundreds of folders for their permissions and would prefer not to do the right click and "Properties | Security | Advanced" just to see the permissions.

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AccessEnum from Microsoft Sysinternals does most of what you requested. It does not however have the facility to drill down, but it's a very useful tool nonetheless.

Give it a try!

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Yes, the robocopy.exe resource kit utility I think was made part of the OS with Windows 2003. You can specify all sorts of options as to what gets overwritten or not.

By default, robocopy won't overwrite same files, just newer versions over old - it's a folder syncing tool, mainly.

If you want to avoid any sort of overwrite, this might work,

robocopy C:\FOLDER1 C:\FOLDER2 /e /xc /xn /xo

where,

/e is copy all subfolders, even empty ones.
/xc is exclude changed files.
/xn is exclude newer files.
/xo is exclude older files.

I recommend you test first with these additional switches,

robocopy C:\FOLDER1 C:\FOLDER2 /e /xc /xn /xo /l /log+:robocopy.txt /np /ndl /tee

where,

/l is just list, don't actually do anything. Remove this switch when you're happy with what robocopy will do.
/log+: appends output to a text file, so you can study it, or /log:, which overwrites the log each time.
/np prevents "% done" progress info in the log.
/ndl is a personal preference for a cleaner log output, but maybe leave this switch out until you're comfortable with how robocopy works.
/tee shows you output on the screen as well as the log.

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