Would you like to learn how to find the file owner using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to discover the owner of a file on a computer running Windows.

• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 2022
• Windows 10
• Windows 11

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Tutorial Powershell - Find the owner of a file

Start a Powershell command-line.

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Find out the owner of a file.

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Here is the command output.

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Find the owner of multiple files.

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Here is the command output.

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Discover the owner of a folder.

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Discover the owner of all files inside a directory.

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Here is the command output.

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Congratulations! You are able to find who is the owner of a file using Powershell.