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Search for files by owner on 2000 server

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by priba

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I have implemented disk quotas on a win2000 server. I have 1 user that the disk quota entry says he has 12MB stored on the server, yet his Homes folder where he is directed to save files to, says it is only 5MB. I want to search the drive for files by owner to see where else he may have files stored. Can this be done? I have found in Explore that I can list the owner for each folder, but I am looking for a fast way to find what and where files are stored on the server buy owner.

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by mindcrazy

I would try to go to the search files and folders and put the persons name in the containing text field and perform the search on the drrive where you think they may have stored the files. When I tried this with my own name on my system it found allthe files that listed myself as the owner. Good Luck.

by priba

This only listed files that contained a person's name in the body of the file. It does not search and list any files by the owner.

by william jay

or dir /a:hd /q /s >>dir_owners.txt -- if the user is more knowledgeable about directories that can be "hidden" from Admin.

by shanghai sam

This does work, but can create a very large file. What I really want to do is search a drive and find only files owned by certain problem users. All of the solutions I have found list every file and the owner of the file which is time consuming to search through.

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