If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect. File permissions and ...

Breaking out of the traditional owner/group/world way of managing file permissions, setfacl and getfacl provide a lot of flexibility and fair share of complexity. The standard way of assigning file ...

Windows may lock some files and prevent access to them from within File Explorer for a number of possible reasons. In many cases, a program that crashes or freezes does not release or reset the file ...

Keeping track of files on a common machine is a tedious task; especially if you are not able to find who accessed your files and when. Common machines induce a very common problem of files being read, ...

Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you “regain control over your data,” has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from their ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...