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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

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 ...

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?

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 ...

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

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

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