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On 02/05/17 21:26, mr meowski wrote:
No worries.. I appreciate the help. I tried those commands as user julian but had a string of 'Operation not permitted' errors, so then I tried them as root, as below:On 02/05/17 20:31, mr meowski wrote:Presuming you're on machine Cerce instead the same directory "Word", try issuing this is in a terminal: chown -R $USER:$USER Mine ls -alh MineWhoops, typo, not helpful. Should have read: Presuming you're on machine "Cerce" and in the same directory as before "Word", try issuing this... Actual commands remain identical. Been a long day, sorry Julian.
Cerce Word # chown -R $USER:$USER Mine Cerce Word # ls -alh Mine total 40K drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4.0K Dec 30 2015 . drwxrwxrwx 7 1026 users 4.0K May 2 18:04 .. drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Oct 16 2015 Cardassian Galaxy drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K Apr 30 18:33 Harp And Dagger drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4.0K Jan 19 17:54 Just Ordinary Men drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4.0K Apr 22 2016 Misc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14K May 1 2014 Novel_Idea.doc Cerce Word # cd Mine/Just\ Ordinary\ Men/Main\ Story/ Cerce Main Story # ls -alh DOC total 2.7M drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4.0K May 2 14:48 . drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4.0K Jan 19 17:56 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch10.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch11.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch12.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch13.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch14.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch15.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch16.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 52K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch17.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch18.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch19.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch1.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch20.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53K Oct 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch21.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48K Oct 30 2012 Ordinary Men_ch22.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51K Nov 7 2012 Ordinary Men_ch23.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46K Nov 17 2012 Ordinary Men_ch24.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50K Nov 19 2012 Ordinary Men_ch25.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50K Dec 1 2012 Ordinary Men_ch26.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch2.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch3.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch4.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch5.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch6.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch7.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch8.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch9.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 430K Sep 7 2012 Ordinary Men.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24K Dec 30 2015 Ordinary Men_Epilogue.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 923K Feb 17 17:43 Ordinary Men - Longer.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22K Dec 30 2015 Ordinary Men Prologue.doc Cerce Main Story #As you can see the folders are quite heavily nested so I went down into one to check the resulting file permissions, which I assume was the point. They're now all owned by root though aren't they?
I have worked only on copies, and this is the output from the /original/ folder with /nothing/ done to the permissions:
Cerce Books # cd Mine/Just\ Ordinary\ Men/Main\ Story/ Cerce Main Story # ls -alh DOC total 2.7M drwxr-xr-x 2 julian julian 4.0K May 2 14:48 . drwxr-xr-x 5 julian julian 4.0K Jan 19 17:56 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 51K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch10.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 48K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch11.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 51K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch12.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 47K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch13.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 50K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch14.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 49K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch15.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 50K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch16.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 52K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch17.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 55K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch18.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 46K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch19.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 44K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch1.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 42K Sep 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch20.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 53K Oct 22 2012 Ordinary Men_ch21.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 48K Oct 30 2012 Ordinary Men_ch22.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 51K Nov 7 2012 Ordinary Men_ch23.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 46K Nov 17 2012 Ordinary Men_ch24.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 50K Nov 19 2012 Ordinary Men_ch25.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 50K Dec 1 2012 Ordinary Men_ch26.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 39K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch2.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 45K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch3.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 43K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch4.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 47K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch5.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 46K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch6.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 44K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch7.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 41K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch8.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 40K Sep 21 2012 Ordinary Men_ch9.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 430K Sep 7 2012 Ordinary Men.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1026 users 24K Dec 30 2015 Ordinary Men_Epilogue.doc -rwxrwxrwx 1 1024 users 923K Feb 17 17:43 Ordinary Men - Longer.doc -rw-r--r-- 1 julian julian 22K Dec 30 2015 Ordinary Men Prologue.doc Cerce Main Story # ^C -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq