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On 28/06/14 22:43, Neil Winchurst wrote: >I am a Linux only user for 15 years now Holy crap, that's longer than me... *you* should be telling me how to fix things by now surely :] > Thanks, that worked. Glad to help. >I assume the -R is recursive and -v is verbose Your 15 years experience is already showing - right first time :] > sudo chown neilwin /media/neilwin/usb-device >From man chown: "If only an owner (a user name or numeric user ID) is given, that user is made the owner of each given file, and the files' group is not changed." Note the 'given file' - your original command didn't operate recursively, although you should have been able to create/delete files in the usb drives' TLD after that. Maybe you were trying unsuccessfully to use the GUI to operate in subdirectories afterwards, which at that point hadn't inherited the parent directory's new permissions so would have naturally failed. >did not get any error messages You know how *nix works - no feedback means the command worked, for certain values of 'worked'. Well, the command returned an exit code of 0, for whatever that may be worth. Out of pure habit I append ' -v' to almost every command I type in a shell so I get a bit more information about what on earth is happening. > Permissions can indeed be a pain. sudo is there for a reason, just be careful when you bruteforce things. It is definitely in your best interests to understand *nix permissions - which are awesome by the way, far *far* better than windows - and I always point curious people towards this old but excellent tutorial: http://www.grymoire.com/unix/Permissions.html Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq