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CHKDSK Breaks NTFS permission
After a chkdsk /r /f /v, the chkdsk messed a lot of folder permissions.
The first to notice is OneDrive and Google Drive
The GUI of windows explorer is not capable of reclaiming ownership of folder, which led me to delete the folder in Administrator CMD (Terminal) and re-syncing them. It took a while until I realised it was the wrong approach.
If admin terminal can access them, the files are actually not corrupt. After a bit more searching, I found that using admin terminal is able to reset NTFS previliage. Reason being a lot of other software installations were broken, as I can't reinstall them and lose all the settings.
In the Command:
/T : indicates that this operation is performed on all matching files/directories below the directories specified in the name.
/Q: indicates that icacls should suppress success messages.
/C: indicates that this operation will continue on all file errors. Error messages will still be displayed.
/RESET: resets the previliage
Reference: How to reset NTFS permissions with ICACLS