<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/15/2014 08:44 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:543F1507.6040303@cajuntechie.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hello everyone, I have a USB thumb drive that has a folder who's permission I need to set to 744. Let's say the folder is named folder1. I issued the following command from the terminal: sudo chmod 744 folder1 This has NO EFFECT on the folder permissions. I've also tried sudo chmod -R 744 folder1 THAT has no effect either. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Anthony </pre> </blockquote> is your prompt in the relative folder? if the absolute path is /home/user/folder1 then your prompt should be in /home/user otherwise you should use the absolute path. If you are not sure of the absolute path then cd into the "folder1" and issue the command: <blockquote>pwd </blockquote> which will give you what you want. Just for posterity and to make sure things are working on your system issue the chmod command with the absolute path: <blockquote>sudo chmod 744 /absolute/path/to/folder1 </blockquote> and see if it works. If you are in the relative folder then: <blockquote>sudo chmod 744 ./folder1 </blockquote> should work as well. HIH. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- - Fred "Only those who can see the invisible can accomplish the impossible." - Anonymous</pre> </body> </html>