I am running Slackware 14.2, and it turns out that I cannot write to the Downloads directory in my home dir, because it has owner root:root
The solution would seem simple: as root chown jjge:users /home/jjge/Download
However, the owner stays root:root. No error is reported.

lsattr shows -----------I--e---- ./Downloads
The 'I' attribute seems to be set by the htree code, which I never never used.

I do not know whether that has anything to do with ownership, it is just the only difference I have found...

Does anyonr know, how to set the ownership on Downloads? It is pretty inconvenient if you can't write to it as owner...

glad you got it figured. go slacker go!

You need root permissions to overwrite root files, so 'sudo chown -R <whatever>' might do it.

Otherwise if you think something's rotten
How about as root and then as yourself I would follow that with a disk check. There's nothing else funny going on, is there?

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The "I" flag is immutable no? That need to be set with the chattr command to -I to remove the immutable flag.