How do I change ownership of a folder in my downloads folder?

Question

I have a folder in /home/downloads that's called wonderdraft. I wish for this folder to be owned by my user. How do I do this? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

If currently you are the owner of this folder (or you have the permissions) and you want to change it to another user then you can use

chown user /home/downloads/folder

If you are not owner of this folder then you have to become root or user sudo command to change the owner

sudo chown user /home/downloads/folder