need help restoring permissions on my downloads folder
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!
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sudo chmod 755 ~/Downloadsassuming you don't need a recursive solution for subdirectories
-R to recurse. Good for chmod and chown
useful for
chown, less so forchmod: 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 $DIRIf you don't want to grant read permissions to everyone you can replace the
awith whichever applies ofugofor user, group or other.Go over it with a second chmod -R but with -X to add execute but only to directories
Don't give all your files execution permissions.
chmod 644 -R Downloads chmod +x DownloadsThat's the same as 755, except you are only setting execute on the folder?
Why would you want execute on anything but the folder?