On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 11:53:35AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Call up a terminal, and type: > > cd > sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername *
This will miss the dot files, and the home directory itself. sudo chown -R "$LOGNAME:$LOGNAME" . And of course, you are doing this interactively, NOT in a script, which means you should notice if the cd fails. If the cd fails, DO NOT run the chown command. It would also be a good idea to *check* the ownerships of everything before doing the chown, just to make sure you're solving the correct problem.
