On Thursday 24 January 2008 19:21:47 James Richard Tyrer wrote: > > The first question is how you made the back up. If you simply made a > copy, you should have used the command: > > cp -a > > both to save and to restore. If you didn't, you may have screwed up > file permissions. > I simply copied all the relevant folders onto a removable drive. I have kept my uid and gid, so didn't expect any problem. > Unless your system administrator wants things otherwise try this: > I *am* the administrator :-) > Open a Konsole and: > > cd $HOME > su > <enter password> > chown -R <user>:<group> * > > where 'user' and 'group' would normally be your user account name. > > This will set the ownership of all files to the correct ownership. > Despite expecting no problems when the uid and gid were the same, I did this as soon as I began to see any problems. Whatever it is, it's not that. The problems remain. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Anne
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