user permissions problems

[andy baxter]

andy baxter wrote:
> What happens if you open a terminal as you, and then do:
>
> echo "some words" > testfile1.txt
>
> in your home directory ?
>
> If there's a text file you don't mind altering (by adding lines to the 
> end), you could also try:
>
> echo "some more words" >> filename.txt
>
> With filename.txt changed to whatever the file name is.
>
> This should narrow things down a bit as to whether the problem is with 
> permissions or with gedit itself.
>
> Also, what are the ownership and permissions for the directory itself? 
> I.e. what do you get if you do:
>
> ls -l /home/jimmywu ?
>
>   

Sorry, I meant to say do:

ls -l /home

and then look for permissions on the subdirectory jimmywu. Also, are you 
working in the home directory itself, or in a subdirectory of it? If the 
latter, what are the permissions on that directory?

> andy
>
> Jimmy Wu wrote:
>   
>> update: I just tried OpenOffice, and that lets me save documents
>> don't know why that works and gedit won't
>>
>>
>> On 7/10/07, *Jimmy Wu* < jimmywu013 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jimmywu013 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     yes the files are owned by me, with read AND write permissions
>>     they are not marked read-only, and yet save is disabled
>>     I can't even save a new document that I create
>>     ?!?
>>