basically it's a large oracle database that has it's only file system (to store information in a vault)

what happens is you open the GUI interface and double click on a file you wish to open, this checks (locks out) the file to you
copies it a directoy it creates under the temp dir, the file and the directory created has read access only for the user that runs the pdm fs (file serice). about 20% of the time these files and directories do not get deleted, so all i want to do is delete them all

as they only have read access to the account that runs the pdm service the user does not have access to delete them or change the persmissons on them based on the permissions from the temp dir (everyone all/all)

so i thought the only way to do this is to claim ownership of them and then change persmissions

can anyone else think of another way?

Pete