diff --git a/scripts/function/permission/before_start.sh b/scripts/function/permission/before_start.sh
index 5995ba6..7389059 100755
--- a/scripts/function/permission/before_start.sh
+++ b/scripts/function/permission/before_start.sh
@@ -12,9 +12,12 @@ fixPermissionsBeforeStart()
     fixAppFolderPermissions;
     changeRootOwnedFile $docker_dir/$db_file $sudo_user_name
 
-    # App Specific
-    if [[ $app_name != "" ]]; then
-        changeRootOwnedFilesAndFolders $containers_dir$app_name $docker_install_user
+    # The regenerable WebUI dir is reconciled to the mode's container owner via
+    # the shared helper (same code path as install + switch). Third-party app
+    # data ownership is established at install/restore time, not blanket-chowned
+    # here — a wrong-owner chown would break permission-strict apps.
+    if [[ "$app_name" == "libreportal" ]]; then
+        reconcileWebuiDirOwnership
     fi
 
     # Traefik
diff --git a/scripts/function/permission/libreportal_folders.sh b/scripts/function/permission/libreportal_folders.sh
index ac145aa..3dff82a 100755
--- a/scripts/function/permission/libreportal_folders.sh
+++ b/scripts/function/permission/libreportal_folders.sh
@@ -1,47 +1,56 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-# Reconcile ONLY the LibrePortal control plane ownership for the current Docker
-# mode, so the CLI and the de-sudo helpers (runFileOp/runInstallOp) keep working
-# after a rooted<->rootless switch:
-#   rooted   -> root:root        (CLI operates via sudo)
-#   rootless -> $sudo_user_name  (the manager/runtime user owns its own files)
+# The user that owns container data for the current Docker mode:
+#   rooted   -> the manager ($sudo_user_name)
+#   rootless -> the docker install user
+# For rootless read it AUTHORITATIVELY from config — the $docker_install_user
+# global is set to the manager in rooted mode, so it goes stale across a switch.
+# Single source of truth for "who owns container files", used by the install
+# permission pass and the switch reconcile alike.
+dockerContainerOwner()
+{
+    local mode="${1:-$CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_TYPE}"
+    if [[ "$mode" == "rootless" ]]; then
+        local cfgdir="${configs_dir:-${docker_dir:-/docker}/configs/}"
+        local appusr
+        appusr=$(grep -h '^CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_USER=' "$cfgdir/general/general_docker_install" 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d= -f2 | awk '{print $1}')
+        echo "${appusr:-${CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_USER:-dockerinstall}}"
+    else
+        echo "${sudo_user_name:-libreportal}"
+    fi
+}
+
+# Reconcile the LibrePortal control plane + structural container dirs for the
+# current Docker mode, so the CLI and the de-sudo helpers (runFileOp/
+# runInstallOp) keep working after a rooted<->rootless switch. The control plane
+# is owned by the MANAGER user in BOTH modes (root:root was never the intended
+# model — it only ever appeared as an artifact of un-de-sudo'd commands); the
+# structural container dirs are owned by the mode's container owner (see
+# dockerContainerOwner).
 #
 # Scope is DELIBERATELY narrow — the de-sudo-critical, LibrePortal-owned files
-# only: configs/, logs/, install scripts, the apps DB, and the /docker top level
-# (kept o+x so the docker user can still traverse to its container dirs).
-#
-# It does NOT touch /docker/containers/** (per-app data, written by per-app
-# container UIDs — uid-mapped through subuids in rootless), nor backups/ (owned
-# by the backup-engine user), nor ssl/ssh (key material). A blanket chown there
-# would break permission-strict apps (Postgres/MySQL refuse a wrong-owned data
-# dir; Grafana/Nextcloud run as fixed UIDs) AND can't survive the rootless
-# subuid offset anyway. Moving a stateful app across modes is a backup->switch
-# ->restore operation, not a chown. Must run as ROOT, apps stopped. Idempotent.
+# only: configs/, logs/, install scripts, the apps DB, the /docker top level
+# (kept o+x for traversal), plus the structural containers/ top dir and the
+# regenerable WebUI dir. It does NOT touch third-party /docker/containers/<app>/
+# data (per-app container UIDs, uid-mapped through subuids in rootless), nor
+# backups/, nor ssl/ssh (key material) — a blanket chown there would break
+# permission-strict apps and can't survive the rootless subuid offset anyway;
+# moving a stateful app across modes is a backup->switch->restore operation, not
+# a chown. Must run as ROOT, apps stopped. Idempotent.
 reconcileDockerOwnership()
 {
     local mode="${1:-$CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_TYPE}"
     [[ -d "$docker_dir" ]] || return 0
 
-    # The control plane is owned by the MANAGER user in BOTH modes. root:root was
-    # never the intended model — it only ever showed up as an artifact of
-    # un-de-sudo'd commands (sudo creating files as root instead of libreportal).
     # Robust resolution — these globals aren't always populated in the CLI/switch
     # context, which previously made ops silently no-op (relative paths / empty
-    # user). Fall back to absolute defaults and the live config file; never empty.
+    # user). Fall back to absolute defaults; never empty.
     local owner="${sudo_user_name:-libreportal}"
     local ddir="${docker_dir:-/docker}"
-    local cdir="${containers_dir:-$ddir/containers/}"
     local cfgdir="${configs_dir:-$ddir/configs/}"
     local logdir="${logs_dir:-$ddir/logs/}"
     local scrdir="${script_dir:-$ddir/install}"
     local dbpath="$ddir/${db_file:-database.db}"
-    # Read the rootless docker install user AUTHORITATIVELY from config — NOT the
-    # lowercase $docker_install_user global, which check_install_type.sh sets to
-    # the MANAGER user in rooted mode, so during a rooted->rootless switch it's
-    # stale (=manager) and would mis-own the WebUI dir.
-    local appusr
-    appusr=$(grep -h '^CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_USER=' "$cfgdir/general/general_docker_install" 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d= -f2 | awk '{print $1}')
-    appusr="${appusr:-${CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_USER:-dockerinstall}}"
 
     [[ -d "$ddir" ]] || return 0
 
@@ -57,48 +66,53 @@ reconcileDockerOwnership()
     done
     [[ -f "$dbpath" ]] && runSystem chmod o+r "$dbpath"
 
-    # LibrePortal's OWN WebUI container dir is regenerable, so flip it to the
-    # mode's container owner so the WebUI survives a switch (safe to recurse —
-    # one UID, no per-app uid to clobber). Third-party app data is left untouched.
+    # Structural container dirs owned by the mode's container owner.
+    reconcileContainersTopOwnership "$mode"
     reconcileWebuiDirOwnership "$mode"
 
     isSuccessful "Reconciled ownership for $mode"
 }
 
+# Own the containers/ top dir (structural, NOT per-app data) as the mode's
+# container owner and keep it traversable, so the docker user can create + own
+# its per-app dirs under it. Shared by the install permission pass and the switch
+# reconcile. Runs as root (runSystem stays root in both modes).
+reconcileContainersTopOwnership()
+{
+    local mode="${1:-$CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_TYPE}"
+    local cdir="${containers_dir:-${docker_dir:-/docker}/containers/}"
+    [[ -d "$cdir" ]] || return 0
+    local owner
+    owner="$(dockerContainerOwner "$mode")"
+    runSystem chown "$owner:$owner" "$cdir"
+    runSystem chmod o+x "$cdir"
+}
+
 # Chown LibrePortal's own (regenerable) WebUI container dir to the mode's
-# CONTAINER owner, so both the WebUI container and the host-side runFileOp
-# generators — which run as that user — can write it:
-#   rooted   -> the manager ($sudo_user_name)
-#   rootless -> the docker install user, read authoritatively from config (the
-#               $docker_install_user global is the manager in rooted and so goes
-#               stale across a switch).
-# Recurses (one regenerable UID, no per-app uid to clobber). Must run as root
-# (runSystem stays root in both modes). Shared by the switch reconcile and the
-# fresh-install WebUI setup so a fresh install gets the same ownership a switch
-# does — otherwise rootless generators hit "Permission denied" on a
-# manager-owned frontend/data tree.
+# container owner, so both the WebUI container and the host-side runFileOp
+# generators — which run as that user — can write it. Recurses (one regenerable
+# UID, no per-app uid to clobber). Must run as root. Shared by the switch
+# reconcile and the fresh-install WebUI setup so a fresh install gets the same
+# ownership a switch does — otherwise rootless generators hit "Permission
+# denied" on a manager-owned frontend/data tree.
 reconcileWebuiDirOwnership()
 {
     local mode="${1:-$CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_TYPE}"
     local cdir="${containers_dir:-${docker_dir:-/docker}/containers/}"
-    local cfgdir="${configs_dir:-${docker_dir:-/docker}/configs/}"
     local webui_dir="${cdir}libreportal"
     if [[ ! -d "$webui_dir" ]]; then
         isNotice "reconcileWebuiDirOwnership: WebUI dir '$webui_dir' not found — skipped"
         return 0
     fi
-
-    local app_owner="${sudo_user_name:-libreportal}"
-    if [[ "$mode" == "rootless" ]]; then
-        local appusr
-        appusr=$(grep -h '^CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_USER=' "$cfgdir/general/general_docker_install" 2>/dev/null | head -1 | cut -d= -f2 | awk '{print $1}')
-        app_owner="${appusr:-${CFG_DOCKER_INSTALL_USER:-dockerinstall}}"
-    fi
-
-    runSystem chown -R "$app_owner:$app_owner" "$webui_dir"
-    isSuccessful "Reconciled WebUI dir ($webui_dir) -> $app_owner"
+    local owner
+    owner="$(dockerContainerOwner "$mode")"
+    runSystem chown -R "$owner:$owner" "$webui_dir"
+    isSuccessful "Reconciled WebUI dir ($webui_dir) -> $owner"
 }
 
+# Traversal (+x) bits only. Ownership of the structural container dirs is handled
+# by the shared reconcile helpers above (single source of truth), so install and
+# switch converge on the same state.
 fixFolderPermissions()
 {
     local silent_flag="$1"
@@ -109,19 +123,10 @@ fixFolderPermissions()
         checkSuccess "Updating $docker_dir with execute permissions."
     fi
 
-    local result=$(runSystem chmod +x "$containers_dir" > /dev/null 2>&1)
-    if [ "$silent_flag" == "loud" ]; then
-        checkSuccess "Updating $containers_dir with execute permissions."
-    fi
-    
     local result=$(runSystem find "$script_dir" "$ssl_dir" "$ssh_dir" "$backup_dir" "$restore_dir" "$migrate_dir" -maxdepth 2 -type d -exec chmod +x {} \;)
     if [ "$silent_flag" == "loud" ]; then
         checkSuccess "Adding execute permissions for $docker_install_user user"
     fi
 
-    # Install user related
-    local result=$(runSystem chown $docker_install_user:$docker_install_user "$containers_dir" > /dev/null 2>&1)
-    if [ "$silent_flag" == "loud" ]; then
-        checkSuccess "Updating $containers_dir with $docker_install_user ownership"
-    fi
+    reconcileContainersTopOwnership
 }
diff --git a/scripts/function/permission/ownership/root_files_folders.sh b/scripts/function/permission/ownership/root_files_folders.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 25ff166..0000000
--- a/scripts/function/permission/ownership/root_files_folders.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-changeRootOwnedFilesAndFolders()
-{
-    local dir_to_change="$1"
-    local user_name="$2"
-
-    # Check if the directory exists
-    if [ ! -d "$dir_to_change" ]; then
-        isError "Install directory '$dir_to_change' does not exist."
-    fi
-
-    # Start the result command in the background
-    (sudo find "$dir_to_change" -type f -user root -exec sudo chown "$user_name:$user_name" {} \; ) &
-
-    local start_time=$(date +%s)
-    local time_threshold=5
-
-    # Check periodically if the result command is still running
-    while ps -p $! > /dev/null; do
-        local current_time=$(date +%s)
-        local elapsed_time=$((current_time - start_time))
-        if [ "$elapsed_time" -ge "$time_threshold" ]; then
-            # Display the message
-            isNotice "Updating ownership of $dir_to_change"
-            isNotice "This may take a while depending on the size and amount of files..."
-            break
-        fi
-        sleep 1
-    done
-    isSuccessful "Find files owned by root and change ownership"
-
-    local result=$(sudo find "$dir_to_change" -type d -user root -exec sudo chown "$user_name:$user_name" {} \;)
-    checkSuccess "Find directories owned by root and change ownership"
-
-    isSuccessful "Updated ownership of root-owned files and directories."
-}
diff --git a/scripts/source/files/arrays/files_function.sh b/scripts/source/files/arrays/files_function.sh
index c578690..91f6ed1 100755
--- a/scripts/source/files/arrays/files_function.sh
+++ b/scripts/source/files/arrays/files_function.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ function_scripts=(
     "function/permission/libreportal_folders.sh"
     "function/permission/ownership/file.sh"
     "function/permission/ownership/folder_group.sh"
-    "function/permission/ownership/root_files_folders.sh"
     "function/permission/ownership/root_file.sh"
     "function/run/create_successful_run_file.sh"
     "function/run/reinstall_libreportal.sh"