Question

I’ve been researching this for a bit and I’ve found that copying a Sharepoint folder doesn’t actually keep the permissions intact.

I’ve tried mapping the Sharepoint folder to X:\ and then using Robocopy with this command:

Robocopy "X:\SharepointFolder\Bob Dylan" "X:\SharepointFolder\John Lennon" /E /SEC

This copies the folders, but the permissions isn’t kept anyway. Actually I get this error message in the cmd window saying

          New Dir          0    X:\SharepointFolder\Bob Dylan\Documents\
2011/06/01 11:32:28 ERROR 1 (0x00000001) Copying NTFS Security to Destination Di
rectory X:\SharepointFolder\Bob Dylan\Documents\
Incorrect function.

The thing is, is my syntax incorrect or is it impossible to copy folder permissions in SharePoint?

Answer 1

Copying a folder via WebDAV won’t copy any meta data set on the folder. Therefor permissions won’t be copied as well.