I have a folder structure with different top level folder names but within each folder contains two folders one called "Public" and one called "Private". I want to change the inheritance on the "Private" folder but leave the "Public" folders as it is. I have been playing with ICACLS for this. I have a loop that removes the inheritance from the correct folder however the loop is not recursive and only works when ran from within the top parent folder. So for example here is the folder structure: Folder1- Folder2- Public Private Folder3- Public Private Folder4- Public Private The loop only works if ran from within Folder2, Folder3 or Folder4. What I want to do is run it from Folder1 and search through all sub-folders. Her is the command i'm using: For /F "tokens=*" %I in ('dir /a:d-s-h /b ^| findstr /B /I /X /C:"Private"') DO ICACLS %I /INHERITANCE:R I know this has to do with the /F switch in the FOR loop but i'm unsure how to get recursive to work. Thanks for the help.

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Will do. Sorry.

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