Hello,
I have just changed hardware and reinstalled windows. I keep my data on
separate drives, but of course I no longer "own" the files. In the past
I have just used a combination of chown and chmod -R to change the file
ownership and permissions to my new user. This time, I have done this,
but it didn't seem to work. I can't move or copy files like I should be
able to.
I have done,
chown -R user_name /dir/
followed by,
chmod -R 777 /dir/
I am logged into an administrative user account. I would prefer to not
use 777, but I need access to these files and 755 didn't work. If I open
the windows permissions, I see that I don't have "full control" over
files, and for directories, there are no permissions whatsoever for my
username (all check boxes are empty).
Can someone point me to a writeup on how to recursively change all
directories and files to my ownership and give them reasonable
permissions? I would also like to remove the old "unknown user"
permissions that are there from my last install if there is a good way
to do that.
LMH
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