how to change ownership on all files in a folder
thufir
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Fri Apr 8 12:07:15 UTC 2005
>
> paulh wrote:
> thufir wrote:
>
> > copying a directory of files from the cd to /home/thufir creates a ton of locked files with root ownership. Whether this makes sense, dunno, but it can be inconvenient.
> >
> > do people recursively go through these files, or is there an alternate solution?
> >
>
> Most likely this happened because you did the copy as root. If you did
> the copy using your regular user account, you'd be the owner of the
> files in the first place.
>
> Paul.
from windows, actually.
Thufir
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