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: Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:56:24 +0530 From: Deb* Mohanty To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Files not accessible after reinstalling OS and cygwin In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j9U9QXAY001667 Dear Igor, Thanks first of all. I forgot to mention that I tried to use 'chown' unsuccessfully earlier. But I tried explorer Advanced Security Properties now and it worked. Thanks again, Deb On 10/29/05, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Deb* Mohanty wrote: > > > Dear Experts, > > > > I had windows2k and cygwin installed on my machine, and I had marked > > some files as read-only (using cygwin chmod). For some reasons, I had > > to reinstall windows2k. I also reinstalled cygwin in the same location > > as it was installed earlier. > > > > However the files which were marked read-only earlier are not > > accessible now. They can't be deleted either. Those are huge files and > > taking up the space. > > > > Any solutions? > > An administrative account should be able to take ownership, either using > Cygwin's chown, or via the Advanced Security Properties dialog in > Explorer. Then you can do whatever you wish with the files. > HTH, > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity > of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA > -- 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/