[Done]Files I backed up won't open

[dwhite]

A couple of weeks ago I had a problem. I thought I'd cure it by doing a clean install now all the files I backed up won't open permission problems I think. What I used to do was open the home file and issue a global command saying all folders and sub-folders were mine

[doktor5000]

If you don't at least mention to which owner/group those files currently belong, and to which owner/group you expect them to belong to, hard to help ...

[dwhite]

I call my installation dwhite64 and have for a few years, So the backup files should have permissions and ownership of that user the hardware was exactly the same. In fact the files I talk of I only copied hours before, why isn't the files' ownership dwhite64, but when I open properties they are?

[doktor5000]

Would you mind to show the ls -al and ls -aln output for some of those files so others can take a look what you see? Just describing stuff doesn't help here ...

[jiml8]

Also, exactly how did you back up? Using what package, commands, or script?

[dwhite]

What I tried to do was a clean install M5.1. Wanting to save some some files I just had to keep I put them on a thumb drive, but although I used the same ownership [dwhite] and permissions the files on the drive they just wouldn't open now I've upgraded to M6 they do

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [DONE], thanks