Still going on in 12.04. I copy a directory and change the permissions from root to me and set it as recursive but none of the files in directory are changed or even can be changed individually even using sudo. Happens mostly when copying directories from an external drive.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/165113 Title: gksudo nautilus won't set ownership/permissions on files below Status in Nautilus: Incomplete Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Open gksudo nautilus Choose a folder, right click, choose properties Choose permissions Change from root.root to local user for all choices Change permissions to create & delete Click the "Apply permissions to enclosed files" The permissions and ownership are changed on the folder, but not on any of the subfolders or files below. I can provide screen shots if necessary. Its repeatable. chmod and chown work fine on their own using sudo at console. Thanks K.Kathman [email protected] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/165113/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
