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Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:03:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Deb* Mohanty <deb DOT mohanty AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Files not accessible after reinstalling OS and cygwin
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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
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