### Please describe the problem. ATM I am chasing a problem that somehow one key "mutated" although I do not remember doing anything malicious, file seems to be also not writable (itself). So I decided to fsck, and only spotted a problem when some warnings started to appear that I am not the owner of the (key)file. So I looked inside and found that all key dirs are writeable BUT annex complains only about the ones where it can't change permissions since they don't belong to me ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? 6.20170815+gitg22da64d0f-1~ndall+1 ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ $> for f in sub00{1,3}/anatomy/highres001.nii.gz; do ls -ld $(realpath $f | xargs dirname ); git annex fsck $f; done drwxrws--- 2 yoh famface 3 May 12 15:15 /data/famface/openfmri/data/.git/annex/objects/08/V3/SHA256E-s6498717--b850ac82ec9db2d399962609e9381d9c2bdf1f426012500b7005b173ea4d9102.nii.gz/ fsck sub001/anatomy/highres001.nii.gz (checksum...) ok (recording state in git...) drwxrwsr-x 2 contematto famface 3 Jul 13 2015 /data/famface/openfmri/data/.git/annex/objects/x2/xX/SHA256E-s6592524--dccba651dc4cd104826a05a2efb6a257b39ca2d8b44d215027250221729f9434.nii.gz/ fsck sub003/anatomy/highres001.nii.gz ** Unable to set correct write mode for .git/annex/objects/x2/xX/SHA256E-s6592524--dccba651dc4cd104826a05a2efb6a257b39ca2d8b44d215027250221729f9434.nii.gz/SHA256E-s6592524--dccba651dc4cd104826a05a2efb6a257b39ca2d8b44d215027250221729f9434.nii.gz ; perhaps you don't own that file (checksum...) ok (recording state in git...) # thought to see may be annex would complain then!? $> chmod a+rwx /data/famface/openfmri/data/.git/annex/objects/08/V3/SHA256E-s6498717--b850ac82ec9db2d399962609e9381d9c2bdf1f426012500b7005b173ea4d9102.nii.gz/ $> for f in sub00{1,3}/anatomy/highres001.nii.gz; do ls -ld $(realpath $f | xargs dirname ); git annex fsck $f; done drwxrwsrwx 2 yoh famface 3 May 12 15:15 /data/famface/openfmri/data/.git/annex/objects/08/V3/SHA256E-s6498717--b850ac82ec9db2d399962609e9381d9c2bdf1f426012500b7005b173ea4d9102.nii.gz/ fsck sub001/anatomy/highres001.nii.gz (checksum...) ok (recording state in git...) drwxrwsr-x 2 contematto famface 3 Jul 13 2015 /data/famface/openfmri/data/.git/annex/objects/x2/xX/SHA256E-s6592524--dccba651dc4cd104826a05a2efb6a257b39ca2d8b44d215027250221729f9434.nii.gz/ fsck sub003/anatomy/highres001.nii.gz ** Unable to set correct write mode for .git/annex/objects/x2/xX/SHA256E-s6592524--dccba651dc4cd104826a05a2efb6a257b39ca2d8b44d215027250221729f9434.nii.gz/SHA256E-s6592524--dccba651dc4cd104826a05a2efb6a257b39ca2d8b44d215027250221729f9434.nii.gz ; perhaps you don't own that file (checksum...) ok (recording state in git...) """]] ~~btw -- the same wrong permissions on the upper hash directories, and they do not get fixed/complained about at all (that is ok)~~ [[!meta author=yoh]]