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
Sudo is completely unnecessary here. If the owner changed, use chown first reset the user. Then use chmod to change permissions.
You’re correct…sudo wasn’t necessary
that's probably right, though sudo will work every time
You should only use elevated privileges only when you need to. Otherwise you risk catastrophic failure.
No I did not use "sudo rm -rf /*". How did you know?
Dude! That’s just plain wrong!
If you wanter do remove the French language packs, you should have run
NSFL
-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.If all you need is to restore read permissions, you could use symbolic rather than octal:
If 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.
That's the same as 755, except you are only setting execute on the folder?
Why would you want execute on anything but the folder?