First of all, everybody who commented or sent me an email regarding my inaccessible directory problem from the previous entry: thanks for writing in!
Secondly, give yourselves all a pat on the back for knowing it was an ownership/permissions problem.
Finally, the big prize goes to Martey Dodoo (who also has a blog, titled This is Martey Dodoo) for pointing me to what I couldn’t find — the way to call up the correct dialog box for changing the ownership of a directory.
In the Unix command line world, the chown
command, which rhymes with “clone” and not
“town”, does this (it’s also where the title to this entry comes from).
Martey’s solution was the simplest thing
that could possibly work and took all of 3 or so minutes to carry out.
It took 10 seconds of mouse clicks and 3 minutes for the hard disk to
chug to
change permissions on a buttload of files.
I’ll have to document the problem and the solution on this blog to
ensure that people who get into the same predicament will be more
likely to find it when they Google for a solution.
Once again, thank you everyone for your assistance.
Special note for Martey: Please email me your snail mail address so I can send you a little “thank you” token!