Saturday, 25 May 2013

why does chown have no effect? (13.04)

why does chown have no effect? (13.04)

i am using chown because folders/files i download via firefox are being saved as being owned by root instead of my own user...
when i used:
sudo chown -R -v username:username path/path/path
i see logs that show that the relevant files/folders have been changed to be owned by the giver username - yet when i view the files in a file manager they remain 'owned' by root..
does anyone know why this is? thanks

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