[Users] CM crashed and burned

Duke Normandin sidney.reilley.ii at gmail.com
Sun Dec 22 01:59:46 UTC 2024


On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 21:17:34 +0000
Malachi Constant <malachi42 at posteo.net> wrote:

[snip]

> I'm not particularly knowledgeable, but it seems to me that what
> you could/should do is re-set the ownerships and groups throughout
> .claws-mail using chown.  Something like:
> 
>    sudo chown -R dnormandin:dnormandin .claws-mail
> 
> As you have been advised, make a back-up of .claws-mail before
> doing this, just in case:
> 
>     sudo cp -R .claws-mail backup.claws-mail

Thx! I've backed up the hosed .claws-mail directory already. I can
change the ownership of all the files in that directory, no
problem, but is there a way to temporarily point CM to that backup
directory to see if chown-ing fixed the problem?
-- 
Duke


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