Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.2.20050216173206.04074680@pop.garc.com> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:32:55 -0800 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Evan Platt Subject: Re: Unable to delete a number of directories... In-Reply-To: References: <6.2.1.2.2.20050216135122.04b62eb0@pop.garc.com> <200502162221.j1GML1wa020428@shell01.lg.garc.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20050216142351.05b21370@pop.garc.com> <6.2.1.2.2.20050216160024.03f19e30@pop.garc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-DSLExtreme-MailGate-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DSLExtreme-MailGate: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: evan@espphotography.com X-IsSubscribed: yes At 05:20 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote: >On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Evan Platt wrote: > > > This is XP home, which I don't believe has folder ownership? > >It does. What it doesn't have is the UI dialog to change it. > >One way to change the ownership would be Cygwin's "chown" program, but, as >you've deleted most of Cygwin, that's not really an option. > >Microsoft TechNet claims that > If you are running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, you must > start the computer in safe mode, and then log on with an account > that has Administrative rights to have access to the Security tab. Thanks all.. that did the trick.. For the archives, I had to do a good number of subdirectories one by one.change my account to the owner, then give owner full access. 30 minutes later, it's gone.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/