Do you know a better solution?
Its my first time to make this filesystem changes, im total unexperienced with that.
I just want to have normal access to my homefolder files.
The backup did something wrong here.
I think that simply changing ownership to yourself would suffice. Just because the files and directories were root-owned doesn’t yet mean that the permissions were wrong. Changing ownership to yourself should probably restore everything to how it’s supposed to be.
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Okay thats good to know. But i just used:
sudo chmod a+rwx /home/koboldx/
Should i revert this? And how do i revert this? if needed.
Is there a simple command, to revert this command?
Is this a security problem now?
borg extract --list /path/to/my/backup
It’s your home directory: everything should be yours anyway, so: no
Note borg is the backup program that multiple people have pointed you to by now. 
Note 2: That was your wake-up call to start making backups. Next time you might not get so lucky!
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I have actually alot backups, but im still unexperienced with Linux and i used Timeshift backup (including all files).
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If you do chmod or chown without -c, it is impossible to revert.
Because there is no log of what changed.
If you do chmod or chown with -c, it is only difficult to revert.
Because it is not easy to revert the actions from the log (,but it is possible).
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im only did:
sudo chmod a+rwx /home/koboldx/
Then please investigate why the permissions are not in your backup !
A backup without file-permissions is often (!) useless
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I just used Timeshift UI and selected backup everything 
Hmm if i remember correct, i used copy -Rv command to replace my Homedirectory, maybe that lead to the problem?
Really? And why is that? Atleast my backup replacement finally works now.
Of course its not perfect. But im the only user on my PC/Laptop, is this really a problem for a single?
Because of this?
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Security is a valuable asset. manjaro takes great care to ensure security. This includes file permissions. Incorrectly set file permissions undermine this security. But they are not an immediate risk.
However, when a computer has been broken into, incorrectly set file permissions may turn a problem into a disaster.
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Is this also related to the Home and its subfolders/files?
One example:
~/Desktop/*.desktop need to be executable
~/Downloads/* should never be executable
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Here’s a snippet to fix permissions - making files non executable.
sudo chown USERNAME:USERNAME -r
find . -type f | sudo xargs -d'\n' chmod 600
find . -type d | sudo xargs -d'\n' chmod 700
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