Re: need to fix permissions

2020-07-16 Thread Bill Stewart
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 7:46 PM wrote: > Thank you very much ! > > I didn't see anybody mention that attrib step, in all the _many_ docs that i read. You're welcome. This is probably because file attributes are not actually security attributes. (As an aside: Please remove the responder's email

Re: need to fix permissions

2020-07-15 Thread briand
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:49:30 -0600 Bill Stewart wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:34 PM wrote: > > the cygwin home folder is giving me a LOT of trouble with access denied. > > > > i've tried takeown and icacls to fix permissions, and strangely it worked > > for _Some_ files, but i still have

Re: need to fix permissions

2020-07-15 Thread Bill Stewart
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:34 PM wrote: the cygwin home folder is giving me a LOT of trouble with access denied. > > i've tried takeown and icacls to fix permissions, and strangely it worked > for _Some_ files, but i still have files which i need to back up which are > causing "access denied"

need to fix permissions

2020-07-14 Thread briand
Hi, Windows question, but since it has to do with the way cygwin has assigned permissions, i thought it would be a relevant questions. i'm in the very unfortunate position of having a PC that won't boot properly. by some miracle i've got access to the C: drive and i'm trying to back up my