Finding out the owner of a file?

[chogben]

How can I find out the owner of a file?

I'm writing an application that checks the age of a file and if it's over a limit it's moved elsewhere so it can be archived (or deleted, hee! hee!)

There's a cooling off period between the moving and the archiving, so people have a chance to grab their files back. So it would be nice to notify the people concerned.

 

[AndyDuke]

I think you will need to employ a little API programming to do this. There is a very good API resourse at

http://www.allapi.net.

I had a quick look and found some details on the GetFileSecurity API call which will give you the file owner. You can find the details including example VB code at

http://www.allapi.net/apilist/apifunction.php?apifunction=GetFileSecurity

If you need more help, drop me a line via the list.
Best of Luck.
Andy.