chowning out of trouble

I have found that minor irritants that crop up in one user account are easily overcome by creating a second user account and moving all files.

This saved me the latest when for some reason all browsers would crash everytime I tried to save content or in anyway tried to access local files. Probably it had something to do with the interaction between wine and konqueror, since only Opera 7.54 and 9.6, which I was running under Wine seemed to have that problem. The problem cropped up recently, after flawless working for close to a year.

The quickest work around involved creating a new account, and copying all files from the older account to the new one - overwriting all existing files. This, ofcourse, was done under root login. The final act involved altering the ownership of all files from the old user to the new one. And chown is the command to do it

chown newuser /home/olduser -R

was all it took. Now under the new username the file error is not encountered.

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