I have a little newbie problem here. What I want to do is to change ownership of the thunderbird (mozilla e-mail program) profile folder, so that it is not owned by root, but by me as ordinary user. This seems to be required as the user needs write access ![Wink](https://www.kubuntuforums.net/core/images/smilies/wink.gif)
first, this is what it looks like now:
I need to change both ownership and group on that file and I thought
should do the necessary trick.
Except it did not, all I got was the reply:
this and that filename ... operation not permitted
I have been trying to find out why it is not permitted, but I am kind of stuck with that now![Sad](https://www.kubuntuforums.net/core/images/smilies/sad.gif)
I tried another way to fix the problem: I renamed the folder (as root, using sudo), and then tried to copy it as myuser:
That pretty much sums it up, another failure - what is wrong, anybody have an idea? Help will be greatly appreciated.
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first, this is what it looks like now:
Code:
myuser@mycomp:~$ ls -ltrhp /windows/ totalt 8,0K drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K 2006-03-06 23:20 thunderbird_sharedmail/
Code:
sudo chown -R myuser. /windows/thunderbird_sharedmail
Except it did not, all I got was the reply:
this and that filename ... operation not permitted
I have been trying to find out why it is not permitted, but I am kind of stuck with that now
![Sad](https://www.kubuntuforums.net/core/images/smilies/sad.gif)
I tried another way to fix the problem: I renamed the folder (as root, using sudo), and then tried to copy it as myuser:
Code:
myuser@mycomp:/windows$ sudo mv thunderbird_sharedmail thunderbird_sharedmail.old myuser@mycomp:/windows$ cp thunderbird_sharedmail.old thunderbird_sharedmail cp: omitting directory «thunderbird_sharedmail.old»
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