Selecting where to apply permissions

When you set advanced permissions on files and folders, you can use Permission Entry for File or Folder Name to set which folders or subfolders will inherit permissions. In this dialog box, Apply onto lists the locations where you can apply permissions. How these permissions are applied depends on whether you select the Apply these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container only check box. By default, this check box is cleared.

Important

For Active Directory objects, not only will the specified objects in the Apply onto field inherit the access control entries but ALL child objects will receive a copy of that ACE. The child objects not specified in the Apply onto field will not utilize the ACE whose copy they receive but if there are enough objects that will get copies of this ACE, then that increased amount of data can cause serious performance problems to your network. For more information, see Best practices for assigning permissions on Active Directory objects in Help.

For more information, see How inheritance affects file and folder permissions.

When the Apply these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container only check box is cleared

Apply onto	Applies permissions to current folder	Applies permissions to subfolders in current folder	Applies permissions to files in current folder	Applies permissions to all subsequent subfolders	Applies permissions to files in all subsequent subfolders
This folder only	x
The folder, subfolders and files	x	x	x	x	x
This folder and subfolders	x	x		x
This folder and files	x		x		x
Subfolders and files only		x	x	x	x
Subfolders only		x		x
Files only			x		x

When the Apply these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container only check box is selected

Apply onto	Applies permissions to current folder	Applies permissions to subfolders in current folder	Applies permissions to files in current folder
This folder only	x
The folder, subfolders and files	x	x	x
This folder and subfolders	x	x
This folder and files	x		x
Subfolders and files only		x	x
Subfolders only		x
Files only			x

For more information, see To set, view, change, or remove special permissions.