My 2 cents: are you sure when you closed VLC it died completely with all of
its child processes?

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 3:35 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
>
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