X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 10:24:30 -0400 From: "Brett Serkez" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Deleting cygwin In-Reply-To: <446DD3FF.6020101@sapo.pt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <446DD3FF.6020101@sapo.pt> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k4JEOc0O019950 > I am having a problem to remove the cygwin folder, it delete most files > but mail in some! > Looks like i dont have permitions to remove the folders :s > > I tryed to Chmod it, but it says that it cant change permission! > > So is there any other way to remove the folder and subfolders\files ( > other than format c: ;) ) I had similar issues at one time. If you right click and go into the properites for c:\cygwin you can 'take ownership' of all the files and directories in the tree and then set protection so you have full access (i.e. remove read-only...) to all files and directories in the tree. Brett -- 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/