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[WIN7] Retaining file permissions

The difference in behaviour is explained by it being 'a new file' versus 'the same file'.

Being a lazy man, I'd go for 'copy and delete'.

Unless you do this often and/or with very large files. In which case, perhaps icacls filename /reset does what you need.

reply to jaa
If it were me, that is what I would do.

Is there a simple command that will apply the folder permissions to all subfolders and files? I could just run that hourly to fix the permissions.

Would this work if I created a cmd file and "run as administrator"?

cd \myfolder
icacls *.* /reset /T

Reset to inherited permission for all files, folders, and subfolders?

If I do that by going to the security of "my folder" and go to advanced, and then tell it to replace the permissions on subfolders, I get a denied error because I am not the owner (I am an administrator).
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"Would this work"?

Probably - but you can test it out by running a command prompt as administrator and then typical that exact same command sequence.

(Btw, '*.*' is oldthinkful - we can just say '*' these days, since dot is more-or-less just a character like any other).

reply to jaa
By the way, icacls is not going to change the ownership of files moved in, only the protection. Is this important to you? Do you need standard ownership?

icacls /setowner or
takeown

should do the trick (the two have slightly different semantics).