Hi. This is a very old bug. Use 'Advanced chown' and modify owner, group, or other for chmod. Then modify owner or group for chown. After you use chown and accept the new value by pressing Enter, the screen for chmod shows the initial values, not what you changed, but by using 'Set' Midnight Commander works as expected. BTW, I'm using CVS from 20010427. --disable-nls --disable-glibtest --without-samba --without-gpm-mouse --without-gnome --with-netrc --without-ext2undel -- 0@pervalidus.{net, {dyndns.}org} Tel: 55-21-717-2399 (Niterói-RJ BR)