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 <p>See also <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/file-permissions">File Permissions for WSL</a> (Dec. 2021).
 
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+The trick is to make sure that all the files in your development folders, e.g. <var>C:\expo\</var> which contains your repos e.g. <var>C:\expo\troggle\</var> are owned in the Windows system by the default Windows user e.g. <var>MACHINENAME\philip</var> and owned in the Linux system e.g. <var>/mnt/c/expo/</var> by the default Linux user, e.g.  <var>philip:philip</var> using <br><var>sudo chown -Rhv philip:philip *</var>
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+and then <em>reboot your machine</em> as this doesn't seem to properly take effect until you do that.
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+See also <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/file-permissions">WSL File Permissions</a>.
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 <h3 id="bold">"Are you feeling lucky, punk"</h3>