Re: Explorer owners column shows SID instead of name

Question 2: You can take ownership en masse of all files and folders on the storage drive/array. Right click on the root folder of the drive and do the usual to get to the Security tab and the option to take ownership of the files and select to "Replace owner on subcontainers and objects".

If you have several valid owners on files on the drive and if you only want to replace the owner on the specific SID use the SubInAcl tool, available from the Microsoft site.

John

PS: Question 3 I have no idea, these phantom SIDs are usually present if the drive was mounted and used on another Windows installation.


James P. H. Fuller wrote:
Hi! I recently reset the Explorer default view on my PC to always display the Owners column. Having done that, I now see what I expected to see: lots of system stuff owned by Administrators, lots of user stuff owned by NIALL\721jpf (the computer is NIALL and I'm 721jpf. That's the only logon I ever use.)

But I also see files and folders all over the machine for which the displayed user is somebody's SID instead of the friendly name. And it isn't 721jpf's SID either (I checked that from a cmd window while logged on as 721jpf, using >whoami /user /sid) it's a different SID. And a lot of these files are ones I definitely remember creating as 721jpf.

Can some knowledgeable person tell me...

1) Is there a way to determine just who S-1-5-21-839522115-838170752-682003330-1022 is?

2) Is there a good clean-up strategy? I'd rather not try to find each of these files/folders individually and take ownership one by one! There's 1.1 TB storage here. And

3) In general, what might have happened to cause this?

Thanks very much!

James Fuller

P.S. And a hat tip in advance to anybody who understands NTFS at this depth.
Oh yeah, this is XP SP3. If I should post more information, just tell me what.


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