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CLUSTER DESKTOP-FILE-PERMISSIONS · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-04-01

File permission management tools

The cluster comprises desktop tools for inspecting, converting, and restricting file and folder permissions on Windows and Unix systems. Its dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only two pre-index entries exist, so it predates the index or its members are undated. Traction leaders are PermissionScope with 4 stars, while Games8ThTeam-AppGuard and Seclore have no stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAY 2012: 1MAR 2025: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2
MAY 2012SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 2 commercial · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01PermissionScope6★29 dayslivehand-codedhobbyDesktop application for Windows that analyzes file and folder permissions, explains who has access and why, and generates reports.
  2. 02Games8ThTeam-AppGuard0★24 days—Desktop app that restricts software permissions on Windows using NTFS Access Control Lists, with both GUI and command-line interfaces.
  3. 03Seclore0★3 molivecommercialEnterprise file security app that restricts access to shared files through user, time, location, and permission controls.
  4. 04Concessio0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop app that converts between symbolic and numeric Unix file permission representations and inspects a file's permissions.
  5. 05Security Center0★unknownlivehand-codedcommercialDesktop application that lets Ubuntu users manage subscription security features, app file permissions, and disk encryption settings.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.