need help restoring permissions on my downloads folder
I removed my permissions on my downloads folder using chmod.
can anyone help restore back to default?
Thanks!
I removed my permissions on my downloads folder using chmod.
can anyone help restore back to default?
Thanks!
sudo chmod 755 ~/Downloads
assuming you don't need a recursive solution for subdirectories
useful for chown
, less so for chmod
: I almost never want my dirs and files with the same permissions, and I made this mistake a few times.
find dir -type f -exec chmod 644 -- {} +
find dir -type d -exec chmod 755 -- {} +
If all you need is to restore read permissions, you could use symbolic rather than octal:
chmod -R a+r $DIR
If you don't want to grant read permissions to everyone you can replace the a
with whichever applies of ugo
for user, group or other.
Don't give all your files execution permissions.
chmod 644 -R Downloads
chmod +x Downloads
A quick guide to explain what is going on here, and what the numbers mean: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DaMLUoGXUAI21V6.jpg:large
Tip: you can also use chmod u+rwx,g+rx,o+rx etc to add permissions
With the initial letters corresponding to "user", "group" and "other", and (r)was, (w)rite, e(x)ecute for the rest.
In the case of directories, x specifies access to files/etc within the directly (read just let's you see them)
You can also use i.e "o-rw" etc etc to remove existing permissions
I was weirded out by the 12288 filesize. If anyone else is wondering.
So used to seeing 4096 lol
So how i understood from the link it's that in those 4k all file names in that directory are stored. That space can grow if necessary but won't shrink automatically. So i assume that op has alot of files in that directory
I do have a lot of files in that directory…but music has more files and taking more space. Strange…
My reading was it wasn't based purely on number of files, but metadata related to files and stuff (idk what that is in ext4, but movies tend to be large and complex related to music). it's probably irrelevant because that's still a really small number on a modern hard drive.
I believe directories contain pointers to the nodes under them, so they get bigger with lots of things in them.
chmod 644 -R Downloads
chmod +x Downloads
Your welcome
Edit: I just copied the permissions on the other folders