Lost files

[anthony2010]

Hi all.

Music Mayday! Music Mayday!

I think I just lost all my music which has cost me a fortune.

I transferred all my music from one hard drive to another and now find that I cant open the files to play them because I dont have permission. Its 'root only'.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get my music back?

Ant.

[xenopeek]

Open a terminal on the directory where you have all your music files (or the directories with the music files). You can do so from your file manager, browse to the directory and from the file manager's File menu choose Open In Terminal. Then run the following command to transfer ownership of all the files and directories to you. That should fix it.

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sudo chown -R $(id -un):$(id -gn)

[anthony2010]

Hi Vincent.

Thanks for that.

Sadly I'm getting an error message:

chown missing operand after 'anthony anthony'

Anthony

[xenopeek]

Dôh, I forgot the *... This is the correct command (be sure to copy it as noted; the : is important):

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sudo chown -R $(id -un):$(id -gn) *

[anthony2010]

Vincent.

I salute your genius! It worked Hundreds of pounds worth of music salvaged.

One day, I might even get to know just what on earth these commands mean!

Thank you so very much!

Anthony.

SOLVED

[xenopeek]

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