Dolphin can't save bookmarks

[Alan Dacey]

Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 11/04/2008 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>  2008/11/4 Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net>:
>>  > > Probably just need to set the permissions for that file. Going to
>>  look.
>>  > > Yuppers. Says the file belongs to Root and I don't have
>>  permission to do
>>  > > squat with it. Just need to change owner  [ somehow - sudo chown
>>  > > something or other I suppose ]. While I was in 8.10/4.1 Dolphin
>>  didn't do it
>>  > >
>>
>>  I wonder why that file was root. Just to clarify, what Kubuntu version
>>  (and KDE version) is this, and was it an upgrade from a previous
>>  version?
>>
>>  Can anybody confirm this issue?
>>
> 
> Ooops! I did forget to put that in. It's 8.04/3.5.10. I did upgrades 
> from somewhere around 7.04 till 8.04. I don't think I ever had 6.x, but 
> may have . I don't remember exactly when I started using Kubuntu. 8.10 
> is my first fresh install since I started using Kubuntu.
> 
> It seems like the issue started with the last round of KDE updates a 
> couple weeks ago.
> 

I had the same problem when I messed up using Dolphin as root.  Just do this:

sudo chown <your user name> /home/<your user name>/.kde/share/apps/d3lphin/*

Worked for me.

Alan


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