Hi guys,

I have a situation.
I removed compiz the other day and that crashed my system.
So I used a live CD, moved all my data to an external hard drive using cp -avr command in the hope I was going to keep all my permissions.

I kept the same username when I reinstalled linux but the easy move that I had anticipated is not working.

My archives are showing 600 instead of 644 and my directories 700 instead of 755

There are so many layers of directories that I was wondering if there might be anything I could easily do to make the move onto their new home partition other than having to run a script?

Thank you very much in advance,

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when copying with the cp ommand use the -p switch as root to preserve the permisions, better yet if you are moving a lot of data use tar which will keep permissions etc, any thing you may have already copied have probably lost the origanal perns and will now have whatever perms the copy command issuer had.

ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP before uninstalling system software.

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Note the as root.
chmod accepts a "recursive" argument, but that may just be opening a whole 'nuther can of worms.

Thank you very much Keith. God bless

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