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RE: Unable to delete a number of directories...


At 02:20 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:

My guess is that it's a Windows NTFS permissions issue.  Assuming you want to
blow away the entire C:\cygwin tree and start again fresh:  log on as
Administrator, take ownership recursively of the entire tree, and reset
permissions recursively of the entire tree.  You then should be able to delete
it.

I'm running XP. Never come across this before. I do have admin rights (this is my own home machine). I've tried with Windows Explorer and Windows Commander - I can't even remove the read-only attribute on the file.


Pardon my ignroance - does taking ownership recursively of a folder apply under XP home? If so, I have no idea how to do that, nor is that anything I've ever needed to do.

Only thing I see when right clicking that folder is properties, and if I uncheck Read-Only, when I hit apply I get access denied.

Thanks.

Evan


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