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Development Tools Console Foundations Users and Permissions File Permissions

PLEASE I NEED HELP

I WAS USING MY TERMINAL TO DO CONSOLE FOUNDATIONS BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT DO I DID TO IT AND NOW I CAN NOT ACCESS TO MY DOCUMENTS ON MY COMPUTER IT SAYS THAT FOLDER AND MY DOCUMENTS CAN NOT BE OPENED BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO IT! CAN SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE

THANK YOU

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Did you mean the documents in your workspace?

If it's documents on your computer this may not help, unless you're running some flavor of Linux.

But for the workspace, you could try this command: "chmod u+rw *". This will make every file and directory readable and writable to you.

Then for directories, you could do this: "chmod u+rwx directory1 directory2 directory3...". Of course give your actual directory names instead of directory1 (and 2 and 3 ... etc).

Hopefully, this will get your access back until you can get more familiar with setting permissions.

Thank you for your response i was able to fix it! =)