On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 6:34 PM <briand@...> wrote: the cygwin home folder is giving me a LOT of trouble with access denied. > > i've tried takeown and icacls to fix permissions, and strangely it worked > for _Some_ files, but i still have files which i need to back up which are > causing "access denied" errors. > > i'm hoping someone who understands how cygwin has set permissions can give > me a way to fix-up the permissions in ntfs land. >
The following is what I have used successfully in the past and should reset everything: 1. Open an elevated PowerShell or cmd.exe shell 2. Take ownership to Administrators group: takeown /F "C:\cygwin" /A /R /D Y 3. Reset all file permissions: icacls "C:\cygwin" /reset /T /C 4. Reset the file attributes: attrib -h -r -s "C:cygwin\*" /s Bill -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
