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avello500:
understand i have search online docs for a couple hours now.
i have pulled a folder from a cd to my desktop.(im still fumbfling thru  like a bull in a china shop).
i moved the folder to the trash . then i try to empty the trash and it tells me the content cannot deleted because i do not have permission to modify its parent folder.
if there is a link or helpfull advice its greatly apprieciated.

ok commence laughing now      

update:
i found some permission settings by right click>preferences. now i get the error message" could not open or create the file"/home/johnny/.gconf-test-locking-file";     the error was permission denied"(errno = 13)

this happens every boot right after i put in my name and password

funny huh?

[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: avello500 ]

voidmain:
Interesting. What distro is this? At any rate if you   open a shell and do this:

$ su -
(enter root's password)
# chown -R johnny:johnny /home/johnny
# chmod -R u+rw /home/johnny
# chmod u+rwx /home/johnny
# chmod u+rwx /home/johnny/.Trash

Should take care of it.

avello500:
ah damn i forgot  im running red hat8.0
im going to try what you typed thanks.

avello500:
you got me back into my machine thanks!
if you are ever in arizona usa, let me know, ill buy u a beer.
im going to hit the books again tommorrow after some sleep and turkey. maybe i can get the hang of this before i crash the net  lol.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!
  :D    :D    :D

voidmain:
No problem. I suspect you copied some things into your home directory while you were logged in as or su'ed to the root user. When you copy files/directories they will take on the ownership of the user that is doing the copying.

Your normal user account does not have the authority to override files owned by root (unless the permissions are set wide open on said files which they wouldn't be by default). Just something to keep in mind. You might want to look over the "chown" and "chmod" commands and file permissions. There is a FAQ entry for this on the MES FAQ but I think I might do up my own in my tips area.

[ November 28, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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