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Posted on by aperea2539

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My goal is to produce a list of file names with their size and owner, to proactively delete or archive files.

However I'm not seeing the owner as one of the available properties under the .Current Items after I read the files from a folder.

Also, I'm using Power automate desktop because I'm reading shared drives.

Does anyone know if this is available or not?

Or perhaps another way of accomplishing this?

Thanks!

Angie P

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Hi @aperea2539

This is how I was able to get the owner name by using a powershell script.

Command inside the For each loop:

And yes it worked for network path too.

The command with network path

Get-Acl "\\server\share\test.txt" | Select-Object Owner
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fabio_doniz 10 on at

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Hi @aperea2539

Use Run DOS command.

Sintaxe: dir "file path" /Q
/Q: display file owner

* Use split for search text.

Output:
aperea2539 79 on at

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Thank you so much! This worked so much faster than reading the files, and it gave all the details I needed
I appreciate the fast response as well 😀
aperea2539 79 on at

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Thank you so much for the fast response, I didn't realized I could run DOS commands, no not only this resolves my current issue; but I can leverage this tool even more now.
I really appreciate it!

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