File permission problem

[miso]

I copied some openoffice documents from my laptop to my main box, and during the copy process, the file permissions have changed from RW to Read only. I got 3,000 files sitting in a folder and I need them all to be RW. Is there a simple way to do this? I tried changing the file permissions on the folder and clicking to apply it to contents as well, but it just errors.

Help! I need this for work!

[askrieger]

Re: File permission problem

In a konsole try

sudo -s
cd /thedirectory
chmod -v 666 *
exit

You're starting a root shell, changing to the desired directory, changing perms on everything, and getting out. Or at least, I hope that that's what it's doing.

[miso]

Re: File permission problem

Err, it did work. On re-opening Konqueror, it has denied me access to all the files.

[aysiu]

Re: File permission problem

Err, it did work. On re-opening Konqueror, it has denied me access to all the files.

It did work or it didn't?

[miso]

Re: File permission problem

It didn't work.

[oblio]

Re: File permission problem

It didn't work.

In a konsole goto the directory that you want to change permissions for. Become root using sudo and type ( R is for directory + all files in all subdirs) :

chmod -R 755 *

and exit again.

Regards,

[aysiu]

Re: File permission problem

Or

sudo chown -R miso:miso /directory_name
sudo chmod -R 755 /directory_name