Hi On Thu, 09 May 2019, Marc Lehmann wrote: > I delete them, calibre recreates them.
If you start calibre as root, yes. That is nothing I can do against it. If you start it as non-root, you don't have write permissions. I just *tried* it. > to create those files, running calibre as root suffices which is hardly > impossible, and is exactly what has happened in this case. Well, that is something that is not to be expected. And I guess that a lot of other python programs will have similar problems when you run something as root. Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13