user permissions problems

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, 2007-10-07 at 17:00 -0400, Jimmy Wu wrote:
> 
>         the permissions for most of the files are rw-r--r--, which
>         means I should be able to edit them 
> oops:) meant to say
>         I don't know why I can't
What about the enclosing folder?  Is it read only?
Have you been mucking with gconf?  Can you edit from a console with nano
or vi?

Some thoughts
Brian

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