Files not accessible after reinstalling OS and cygwin

[Deb* Mohanty]

Dear Igor,

Thanks first of all.
I forgot to mention that I tried to use 'chown' unsuccessfully earlier.
But I tried explorer Advanced Security Properties now and it worked.

Thanks again,
Deb


On 10/29/05, Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> 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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