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Is there a way to search by file owner ?

By fun_to_know ·
I would like to run a search on my shared file server by file "owner" who is exceeding his disk quota. Is there an easy way to run a script to do that in Windows ?

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by oliver_ricken In reply to Is there a way to search ...

A quick way to determine the owner of a file is to open a CMD prompt and type dir /q <Drive:>\Folder\FileName.Extension.

When you issue a DIR command in a CMD prompt, the default behavior is to NOT show System and Hidden files.

To show everything, use the /A switch without any modifiers.

You can set the dircmd environment variable, to make /A the default.

I prefer using setting dircmd to /a /ogne, to also group directories first and sort by name and extension.

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