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AD Folder and File security

I have a very large file that the permissions are corrupted.  When I open the folder permissions, they are blank.  I am able to take ownership of the files/folders and then give myself permissions.

However, the sub folders are not inheriting the permissions of the parent folder.  It would take days or longer to start at the file level and work my way up to fix permissions.

Since this isn't working in MS, is there a tool that I can use to fix this.
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I meant to say this is a very large folder with multiple folders several levels deep.
Can you restore to folder from backup with Security?  If so .. restore back to a known good backup and verify your permissions.
Tried that, but it still had the same security issue.  I can go to each folder, subfolder and file and set the permissions to everyone.  And I have done that on a couple folders.  But this data server has hundreds of folders and close to a million files.
On the root folder>properties>security>advanced button>change permissions>check replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object
I get access denied as it starts the permissions change.
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