On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:38:17 +0000 Timothy Murphy wrote: > I found my UID had changed from 500 to 1000. When I installed the new system with the 1000 default, I booted a live CD, mounted the hard disk partitions and ran a find command to find all files owned by UID 500 and chowned them to UID 1000. (And the same for the gid, which also changed).