Question

I want to copy a folder with its permissions but without copying its content. So an example:

C:\pictures and it has cat photos in it

I want to copy only the permission to

D:\pictures (has other pictures)

and I want to copy it to

E:\pictures (this folder is not existing)

I tried it with robocopy and with icacls. But I am not able to restore the data with icacls:

icacls C:\pictures /save ntfspermissions.txt /c
icacls D:\pictures /restore C:\ntfspermissions.txt

and it just says: 1 error.

In robocopy I tried it with the parameter “/COPY:SAO“. But it is not working too. It only works with “/MIR” but if I do that, I have the content copied too.

Answer 1

Use get-acl and set-acl :

$acl=get-acl -path C:\pictures
set-acl -path d:\pictures -AclObject $acl
New-Item -ItemType directory -Name pictures -Path e:\
set-acl -path e:\pictures -AclObject $acl

More detailed answer by Don Jones : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.02.powershell.aspx