Hi, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Somehow, I've managed to really mess up the owner and access to a folder.
You are probably not to blame. :)) > The folder looks like this: > d????????? ? ? ? ? ? doc What's its full path ? Is it /run/user/NNN/doc, where NNN is "gary"'s user id number ? If so, then the reason is the service xdg-document-portal from package xdg-desktop-portal. A summary is at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/06/msg00122.html If "doc" appeared somwhere else, then it still might be a FUSE mount point which was populated by some similar service. We'd have to google then. > 'access denied' Did you try as "gary" ? The superuser is not allowed to peek at a FUSE mount points of other users. It would be interesting to see whether "gary" can get the usual output from "ls -ld doc". Have a nice day :) Thomas