[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:16:21 +0100, luxxius <luxxius at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Ah.  Slight problem folks.  The instructions appear to have reset all
> the files in the music folder so that the owner (diana) and group (root)
> are set to 'list, create/delete, no access' and no file permissions
> (---).  When I try to use nautilus to look at files, they vanish!  Very
> worrying.  A little more help?

A very simple thing (that could have solved the whole thing in the first place now I think about it...)

> cd ~/music
> sudo chmod -Rvf 644 .
> sudo chown -Rvf diana:root .

this will recursively apply the permissions and the ownership to all files in the folder and all sub folders.

Cheers,

Matt.

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