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Authored by: sjk on May 26, '06 07:04:46PM
It would be useful to know which directories were unwritable; that info might be helpful to determine and understand how they got that way. And if they were under the home directory then Repair Disk Permissions wouldn't have noticed them.

Using chmod -R 777 ... or other methods to recursively set global write permissions of files and/or directories under entire home (or system) hierarchies is never recommended unless you really want them completely vulnerable to unintentional deletion/modification. You'd better have a darn good reason to justify driving 100km/hour in a school zone. ;-)

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Authored by: LC on May 26, '06 09:46:21PM
chmod -fR u+w ~
find ~ -type d -exec chmod +x {} \;


No likey "777" (no likey "kill -9" etc.)

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Authored by: LC on May 26, '06 09:51:21PM
I meant,
chmod -fR u+rw ~

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