Of course right after I hit send I had another thought. I have a possible answer.
Somehow I was not the owner of the directory the file was in, and didn't have write permission to the directory (drwxr-xr-x), even though I owned and had write permission to the file. That has been corrected, still have to wait to see, but I think that should fix it. Paul On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 5:34 PM Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > I listened to an mp3 (recorded from the earlier adventure in automatically > running VLC). Close VLC. > > I went to delete the file in Thunar file manager, and the delete and trash > options were grayed out for the file. So I went to the command line, cd'd > to the directory. > ls -lh filename > -rw-rw-r-- 1 paul paul 220M (etc.) > > rm filename > rm: cannot remove 'filename': Permission denied > > I was immediately able to sudo rm the file. My first thought was somehow I > didn't have write permission, but I'm logged in as the file owner, and it > obviously says I have user and group write permission. > > Any thoughts on what could cause this? (That file is gone now, so I can't > do any other prodding, and I'm not ready to delete another from the > directory yet.) > > Paul > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS2OEWNwHdKOrte%2BetsXbyGfCO-zHMcr83iN5gtakkanoA%40mail.gmail.com.
