Making Folder un-deletable?

[Rebelius]

Ok, so I'm the first to admit I don't really know anything about permissions, but how can I protect a folder so that I can't delete it by accident? Last night I accidentally deleted this folder to the recycle bin, and I quite often just shift-delete stuff so I'd like to make it so that I can't delete it by mistake. I played around with the permission settings and now they look like this. Which looks to me like I shouldn't be able to delete it (having deny delete for Tom, System & Administrator) But I can. Why is this? and how can I make it un-deletable without making it's contents un-deletable?

Basically I quite often delete some files from the folder it's in and move other files into it. I don't want to be able accidentally delete it but I want to leave it where it is as well.

The other solution which I've just thought of would be to move it and replace it with a shortcut to the new location, but I'm still curious as to why the permissions thing didn't work.

 

[HangTime]

I suspect that it may not be possible to deny delete permissions to Administrator accounts (since that would rather defeat the object of having them in the first place - if you want to restrict what a user can do, then they should't be a pure admin). If your user "Tom" is a member of the admin group then it can probably override these permissions.

A possible solution might be to create a more restricted Group and put your user in that.

Just speculation on my part based on my experience of users/roles/group configurations on other systems, not Windows, so I may be wrong.