Greetings, lemke...@t-online.de! >>>> The result of chown I can see in Windows Explorer as the Owner but where >>>> is the group information? >>> >>> Itâs over on the Security tab of the same window youâre looking at: âGroup >>> or user namesâ. >> >>I just remembered that that tab isnât always visible. If youâre running a >>âhomeâ version of Windows, thereâs a pretty good chance you donât even see >>this tab.
> Thanks for that. I first thought that's it. I am on XP Pro so this > doesn't seem to apply. I do see the security tab > if that is what you mean. But the 'Group or user names' box only selects > for which user/group I want to modify > the permissions, doesn't it? I don't want to modify or look at permissions. > I am actually looking for the information I see in ls -l as the group, i.e. > column #4. > I am trying to fix a completely hosed file system and seem to have quite a > bit of trouble with that... Something's still missing. > Thanks again for your quick reply. If you mean Cygwin system, reinstall would be a faster way. Shutdown any cygwin-related applications, rename current Cygwin installation and fire up setup.exe. P.S. I would also appreciate, if you teach your mail agent to insert proper threading headers into list replies. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 25.02.2015, <03:40> Sorry for my terrible english...