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need help restoring permissions on my downloads folder (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I removed my permissions on my downloads folder using chmod.

can anyone help restore back to default?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I do have a lot of files in that directory…but music has more files and taking more space. Strange…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My reading was it wasn't based purely on number of files, but metadata related to files and stuff (idk what that is in ext4, but movies tend to be large and complex related to music). it's probably irrelevant because that's still a really small number on a modern hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Ahh yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for sharing the info!