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Change Properties of Multiple Files Or Folders

Daniel Mancuso

April 28, 2013 03:03

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I would like to change properties of multiple files or folders so that i can change things like access permission. For example I have set with my account to put files as private but there are 200 photos that I want to share with some one and would like to make all of those as hidden and give them a link. can you add this thanks      

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  Admin April 30, 2013 04:01

  Desktop applications allows you to select multiple files and folders and change permission for selected items. However if you change parent folder permission, items inside of this folder will not be changed for security reasons.

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  Bruno Batič August 12, 2013 12:41

  What desktop aplications?

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  Admin August 15, 2013 05:58

  Windows application and latest update enables you to change permission also for nested files and folders recursively. Same feature for Mac application is in development.

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  Oleksandr Korytskyy December 07, 2017 17:46

  Was this feature released?

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  David-Emmanuel COHEN March 21, 2018 18:24

  same request, Was this feature released on Mac ??

  Edited by David-Emmanuel COHEN March 21, 2018 18:24
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  Cheang Weng Leong June 12, 2018 02:18

  Why I set the main folder as hidden and set changing permission recursively so I can share the folder link with someone. However, the subfolders and files after the main folder are invisible? I need to share all subfolders and files with some one that given the link but I don't want to change the permission separely for each subfolders or files.

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  Daniel Franks February 02, 2019 07:02

  [SOLUTION] For those struggling to set recursive permissions, admin above is referring to the windows backup and sync tool OpenDrive offer installed on Windows.

  Once installed, if you explore the drive as mounted by this software (and not as a mapped network drive which you can also do), then you can right click on a parent directory and in the properties, select recursive file permissions.

  If you do not use Windows, you can probably (not tried) mount it as a webdav directory, look at the permissions of ONE file you've set correctly in the web interface and copy the permissions and owner (chown/chmod) to match using a terminal. If you have the patience you can use rclone as the backup and sync tool is basically a GUI for rclone.