Permission Basics

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I'll admit I'm a bit of a newbie, but I'm hoping someone can help with this.

I'm trying to protect parent folders from accidental deletion, which I've
done, however I can't seem to stop the content of these folders being
deleted, despite receiving an access denied error.

Here's the basic layout:

PARENT FOLDER -> SUBFOLDER->FILES

If I grant DELETE permissions (on subfolders & files only) on the PARENT,
and then try to delete it, I receive the appropriate error, but all content
is lost.

Is there a way to ensure that if access is denied for the top most folder,
that it won't propogate to subfolders and files?

I know one solution would be to set these permissions at a lower level,
however if you don't know what that will be, it cannot be set?

Thanks in advance
Russell.


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