Previously Peter Lu <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know if there is a utility or script
> that would go through my files and directories
> (after they were migrated from one partition to
> another) and assign them the ownerships and
> permissions as intended by Windows? I used a
> "transfering" OS to copy the data from the old
> partition (drive) to the new one, and the
> ownerships/permissons got lost (shows in
> Cygwin as 4294967295/4294967295 [all 1's]),
> but the "transferred" OS boots and runs fine,
> probably because 4294967295 means owned by
> or usable by everyone.
> Worse come to worst, I go through the file
> system manually to fix things.
> Thanks for hep and advice.
I think this cannot be done automatically, since the
permission information is just not there in the copy.
Arno
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