I removed my permissions on my downloads folder using chmod.
can anyone help restore back to default?
Thanks!
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sudo chmod 755 ~/Downloadsassuming you don't need a recursive solution for subdirectories
-R to recurse. Good for chmod and chown
useful for
chown, less so forchmod: I almost never want my dirs and files with the same permissions, and I made this mistake a few times.If all you need is to restore read permissions, you could use symbolic rather than octal:
If you don't want to grant read permissions to everyone you can replace the
awith whichever applies ofugofor user, group or other.Go over it with a second chmod -R but with -X to add execute but only to directories
Don't give all your files execution permissions.
That's the same as 755, except you are only setting execute on the folder?
Why would you want execute on anything but the folder?