HELP: Cygwin ruined my WinXP files/HDD

Peter Rehley peter@rehley.net
Sun Dec 12 07:04:00 GMT 2004


On Dec 11, 2004, at 9:07 PM, KevinGPO wrote:

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>> find . -type d | xargs chmod +w
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> Hi guys, Thanks for your replies.
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> Igor, I tried find . -type d | xargs chmod +w
> and then rm -Rf the main folder/directory. To no avail, it does not 
> work :(((
Coming in the middle, so I may be out of context or you might have 
tried this already...

But try changing the permissions of the files using windows explorer.  
I've had some odds cases where this is the only way to remove files.
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> Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha <at> cs.nyu.edu> writes:
>> and then your 'rm -rf' command again.
>> 	Igor
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Enjoy,
Peter
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