I'm using Simply Mepis 3.3.1 right now. Very nice OS, by the way. I foolishly copied files from my backup CD into the user account directory as home, and now all of my files have root user ownership to them. I tried going through root and changing the permissions and ownership to all the files. Changing the permissions worked, but for some reason I can't get the new ownership settings to go to all my files and folders. Can someone please help me? What am I doing wrong?

I would do it like this:

root@box# cd /dir/containing/stuff to change
root@box# chown -R <username> *

Very impressive command. Thank you.

Glad I could help!

I will point something out -

the -r/-R is for recursive, effecting all files and all sub directories. it took me a while to figure it out...

but, you can use it with mv and cp as well, if you want ot move an entire directy and contents

mv -r

and

with rm

you can use rm -rf (f is for force) to remove everything and all directories without asking about write protected stuff.

sorry if this is redundant, but, im fairly new to linux, but now im starting to figure everything out, i hate to be in windows because i need to use the cmmand line. im finding it frar more effecient.


martin