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Andrew just wants to open his files on Windows 10 (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-why-dont-i-have-permission-to-open-my/6f33e814-3cc6-4ce6-993c-dffcf1bb5b75

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Eh? On Linux you also aren't supposed to log in as root, and you also have to individually set file permissions.

This issue is unrelated to windows, it's a safety feature that all modern desktop OSes have

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but on Linux, if I am root, I am God. I do whatever the fuck I want with my machine, for good, evil or stupidity. That's the poster's point. It seems like Windows doesn't allow you to do this, or at least not easily. So I guess people who want to have absolute control over their computer shouldn't be using Windows, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think windows is a pretty good middle ground. Yes it's annoying that you might need to install a 3rd party tool to give you a right click menu option to take ownership of any file/folder, but at least you can do that and it's easy. And for normies that don't have Linux-fu they'll get into a lot less trouble than if you give them Linux.

MacOS on the other hand, if there's something Apple decided users are too dumb to be allowed to do (which it turns out, is a lot of stuff), then you just can't do it, period.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It’s quite common to login as admin on windows though (in home setups), you’ll still have to authenticate for administrative tasks (the UAC popups).

The issue here is mostly that the user has probably upgraded and windows changed their account, resulting in the files being owned by their old account.

In linux, that’s fixable with ‘sudo chmod -R’

In Windows, there’s no built-in way, you need the take ownership script.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I am the installer and only user of my pc, but Windows neeeds other users. Note: Phil is USERS not ADMIN! Not even Authenticated Users.

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

i mean, chown is just a binary. takeown is probably pretty similar, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Pretty much, yeah

I assume the equivalent would just be ‘takeown /r ’

As far as I can tell it always uses the currently logged in user as target though