Why is reset owner ...

[bjbrink]

Hi,

I'm getting the error message 'an error occurred while resetting the file ownership' when pressing the Reset Owner button.
I'm expecting that this should set my UID to the current user account I'm logged into. Is this correct?
The file I've selected has permissions 644, I've also tried 777 but still the same problem.
What can be causing this?

 

[smtalk]

Who is the owner of the files you're trying to reset the ownership of? This feature was created to reset the ownership of the files owned by apache.

 

[bjbrink]

Who is the owner of the files you're trying to reset the ownership of? This feature was created to reset the ownership of the files owned by apache.

I suspect this is shown in the UID column?! This shows 'myuser', actually the same user I'm logged into.
Maybe causing the issue is that I migrated the site this file belongs to, some time ago from another server and copied this 'myuser' along?!