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bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 19:16:10 +0300

> Cc: 41570@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: "A. Peter Blicher" <blicher@comcast.net>
> Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 08:54:29 -0700
> 
> The main reason I have more use for chown in windows compared to when I was 
> using Unix is that Windows creates a profusion of different ownerships even 
> for files I create under a single user (depending on how they were created), 
> resulting in a mess that I often need to clean up.

The usual remedy for that is to take ownership on the parent directory
of where you are working (and all of its subdirectories), so that it
is owned by your user.  You do that once for a directory high enough
in the directory tree, and all your problems will be solved
henceforth.





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