I've found recently while using cp or rsync that the Administrator account could not access files or set back permissions for files with System account privileges. I had to resort to xcopy to do things properly.
-----Original Message----- From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Greg Freemyer Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 10:48 AM To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: permission question I have a USB drive with 100,000's of thousands of files I put on it from one PC. I've built that dataset up over a couple years. I moved the USB drive to a different PC and I'm trying to rsync it to another drive. 99.9% of the data seems to have made its way from one drive to the other. But I got a few permission denied messages when reading files off of the source drive. I really don't need anything but the equivalent of 666 permissions for the source drive files. I know linux well, but I have screwed up Windows permissions once too often. Is there a command I should run in Windows or cygwin to grant my user read/write permission to all of the files? Or I can parse the rsync log file I created and look for the handful of files that failed with permission denied. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
