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Permission denied for using some files or copying files to desktop

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Sometimes ago i experienced couple of errors in my Ubuntu 12.10 and i was getting the permission denied error in a lot of Softwares. Finally i found the solution. I found out that a lot of the files in my system including the files and folders in the "home" directory like "pictures" "desktop" "music" and other folders are set to "www-data" in the permission tab when i click on every and each one of those folders and files i right clicked on and then clicked on properties. So one solution is to become root in nautilus and then change that "www-data" to "user-name" in every file or folder, but it will take a long time for me to do that. So my question is, is there any easier way to make "user-name" default again?

after i ran this command:

find /home/{username} -user www-data | xargs sudo chown {username}

i got these errors:

amirrazor@ubuntu:~$ find /home/amirrazor -user www-data | xargs sudo chown amirrazor

xargs: unmatched single quote; by default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option

[sudo] password for amirrazor: 

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/test': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `piano.wma': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/Ubuntu': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `One/Shared': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `With': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Me': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/f_000003': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/f_000007': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/f_000002': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/data_1': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/f_000004': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/index': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/data_2': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/f_000006': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/f_000001': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/data_3': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/f_000005': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `/home/amirrazor/old_Media': No such file or directory

chown: cannot access `Cache_000/data_0': No such file or directory