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try this... as root, cd into the directory where you need to change the
files, and type:
chown <newuser>.<newuser> *

just like "chown james.james *"

Hope this helps,

Ralph

james Mellema wrote:
| As root I copied a directory from an old hard drive to a new drive. The
| files are now owned by root, and I am unable to change the permissions
| to allow me to use them.
|
| I read the man on chown, and looked at the suggestions in "Running
| Linux" and I've tried every permutation of 'chown' I can come up with
| and have had no success. I would like to change all the files
| (approximately 100 text files) at one time but would settle for doing
| them individually.
|
| Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
|
| Jim
|
|
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