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NTFS Permissions - Inheritance and changing

I have a folder tree that had permissions assigned and inheritance enabled.
I want to change the permissions on some of the upper level folders.  Is there a way to then update the permissions on the folders and files below the updated folders to reflect the changed permissions?  (Basically, update or repropogate the inheritance throughout the folder tree (including files).
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Thats should happen automatically.

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I thought so too, but it didn't seem to.  I have users that had files in the subfolders when I modified the upper level folder permissions and the person that I gave permissions to could access the folders, but not the file.
Is it just delayed a bit?  I will check when I get to work tomorrow and see if it has updated.

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It turned out that my problem had to do with folder creation and CACLs being called; It was just the first subfolder that wasn't inheriting the upper permissions.  I had the script that created the subfolders check for the existence of the upper folders and create them if needed.  If the upper folder existed, the inheritance worked fine, if it didn't exist, the first subfolder was basically seen as a root folder and it didn't inherit.  I modified the script to separate the folder creation and permission assignment by folder level....checking for the upper folders completely first, then running thru and creating the subfolders.  It works fine now.
Thanks for assisting.