Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.1.20040730162353.030aee28@softcafe.net> X-Sender: groups AT softcafe DOT net Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:24:08 -0700 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Don V Black Subject: How do I delete crashed cygwin/x directories on W2K? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hello Once More - I have a couple of CYGWIN/X directories on my hard drive that I cannot remove even when I logon as "Administrator". This is a question for the person(s) who wrote the cygwin and cygwin/x Windows installation scripts. The directories and files were installed via the CYGWIN/X installation procedure. I had a disk crash and was forced to restore the W2K system onto a new harddrive. I use the old NTFS drive (120GB) as a data disk. The data disk contains the old CYGWIN/X directories which I now cannot delete. Windows Explorer displays the properties of these directories. I cannot change the READ-ONLY status of the "Shorcuts" in these directories, so I cannot delete them. What are these shortcuts? Who owns them? How do I delete them? The 'security' allows read and or execute only, no write, modify or delete. The owner is "S-1-5-21-184423 ... " I can take ownership of the directories, but not of the 'Shortcut's within the directories. I get the message "You only have permission to view the current security information on " Note that I can only view, not change any security. It seems that "S-1-5-21-1844 ... ", which was most likely created by the installation procedure, is the owner of the 'Shortcuts' files in the directories. Since I cannot delete these shortcut files, I cannot delete the directories. How do I delete these directories installed by the cygwin/x installation procedure? - Kind Regards, Don + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Join the Pros at your IEEE Computer Society http://www.IEEE-OCCS.org Digital ChoreoGraphics http://www.dcgfx.com 3D Visualization Software Design & Development 1-949-548-1969 dcg02 AT softcafe DOT net + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Join the Pros at your IEEE Computer Society http://www.IEEE-OCCS.org Digital ChoreoGraphics http://www.dcgfx.com 3D Visualization Software Design & Development 1-949-548-1969 dcg02 AT softcafe DOT net -- 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/