[warning: if this question has been asked before please just forward me onto it. I rarely find what I need using the search tool. And if this thread is in the wrong place I am sure a moderator will move it. Thanks]
A while ago I copied my Home Directory to a removable HDD as a temporary back-up solution. I have since found out that I have lost all ownership of the file to root. I logged on as root (I don't know how to do this in the terminal) and tried to change the the ownership and group permission settings back to my user name but it would keep flipping back to root.
I am stuck now because I want to compress and archive the folder for history's sake but can't because I am not root. (and no, I don't want to do it as root)
Please help
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