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teejee2008 / polo

Advanced file manager for Linux written in Vala. Supports multiple panes (single, dual, quad) with multiple tabs in each pane. Supports archive creation, extraction and browsing. Support for cloud storage; running and managing KVM images, modifying PDF documents and image files, booting ISO files in KVM, and writing ISO files to USB drives.
https://teejee2008.github.io/polo/
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Failed to execute operation as admin #267

Open bsngardner opened 4 years ago

bsngardner commented 4 years ago

Describe Changing file/folder ownership from root to another user in admin mode results in the error E: Failed to execute operation as admin

To Reproduce

  1. Make some files owned by root
  2. Start Polo as root or open new admin window
  3. Select files owned by root, right click, go to properties
  4. Set "Owner" to another user
  5. Error occurs

Expected behavior The file ownership should change.

System:

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