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HDD Recovery Question

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bork:
If you are copying the files while as root, the file ownership will be under root.  After the files are move to the new location, change ownership (chown), to a normal user or you will not be able to access the files as a user.

chown -R owner /dir/...

Natheria:
Thanks guys! I finally got around to reading these comments and finish working on it last night (damn midterms). All it needed was a cp with the recursive option set (wouldn't have taken so long if the people i asked before had just mentioned cp in the first place instead of knowing zip about ACLs... oh well, now i know a little bit more).

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