In order to edit some files in Netbeans, I had to do a chmod 777 on the parent-folder. Reason being that anything else would result in Netbeans not wanting to accept the folder, as it could not be written.

Is there an other way to do this besides doing a chmod 777?

I'm on Ubuntu 9.10, using Netbeans 6.7.1

And after that, I manually have to give each file the needed rights. There should be an easier way, I just don't know it.

EDIT: I am running XAMPP and the files I'm trying to edit are in the htdocs folder.
I'm running Netbeans as my local user account, which is how it starts if I have it run from the applications-menu.