August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
11h 39m
English
File permissions can change when moving a file. How they change depends on whether this is a copy and paste or a cut and paste, and whether or not the operation is within the same partition. For copying and pasting on the same partition, files and folders will inherit the rights of the folder they are being copied to. For cutting and pasting (moving), files and folders will retain the original permissions if they are on the same partition. This is because when the files and folders are on the same partition, they don’t actually move, but rather the pointers to their locations get updated. With copying or cutting to a different partition, the file will inherit the rights of the destination folder.
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