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Installing Solr I change the ownership of a folder called solr ... usr/share/solr-4.5.1/example/solr/ to tomcat7 but now when I try to change it back nautilus keeps switching off I have changed the owner back to ed, but it still is doing it in nautilus.

The original owner was Me to start with: What have I done, Why does nautilus keep crashing when I look at the permissions on this folder and how can I fix it?

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The reason for the crash is probably a bug. You should report it. If you want to change ownership you can use:

sudo chown -R someuser:somegroup /usr/share/solr-4.5.1/example/solr/

Be careful that you don't mess up something else.

What have I done

You can't change ownership of files that are not longer yours, that's most likely the cause why Nautilus crash.

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  • Thanks for your answer -- So am i not nescessarily the owner of the file even if i am the only user on this computer? – EdC Nov 24 '13 at 22:01
  • Exactly, Ubuntu has many users for different stuff. You can check all the users in your system awk -F':' '{print $1}' /etc/passwd – Braiam Nov 24 '13 at 22:04