Topic: FTP - Files that are now owned by you, and unable to delete?

[Blue Mohican]

(11:44:51 PM) colin: have there ever been files that you cant delete? Like they arent owned by you in FTP and you cant change the ownership?
(11:44:59 PM) sunking: yes
(11:45:07 PM) sunking: i have a folder and a few files right now
(11:45:10 PM) sunking: lmao
(11:45:13 PM) sunking: "stats"
(11:45:17 PM) colin: is there any script that can change that?

^^

[SunKing]

There is a way to. It has something to do with changing the name of the file(s), creating new blank files with the same name, and then setting permissions and deleting the originals, then deleting the blank new files. I have had this happen to me twice, and in both cases the files that cannot be deleted had permissions of 000. Changing these permissions to 444 or higher (probably to anything other than 000) will allow them to be deleted. Though not an answer, I hope this information at least points you in the right direction.

[ccbtimewiz]

Shared hosting: Contact you host and ask to run a chown on your directory as the files were created by a user outside of your permission scope.

VPS or higher: Run chmod through SSH. The syntax for chown is:

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chown [-R] [[user]][:group] target1 [[target2 ..]]

[stikkki]

i get this sometimes, especially if i create a new copy of curve/core theme thru admin panel, where i have no permissions and i just message my host and he resets the permissions so im the "owner" instead of 000000 being the owner

[Link]

Granted, it's for a gallery, but it always worked for me when I had shared hosting.
http://codex.gallery2.org/Downloads:Cleanup_Script
It will probably give you errors, but will change the owners regardless.

[SunKing]

That's a very simple script and would probably work in any folder on any system. Going to try it out here shortly. I'll post the results.

Thanks Link!