<div>I am working right in the home directory</div> <div>the permissions, as listed by ls -l /home, for my jimmywu folder are "drwxr-xr-x"</div> <div>the append ">>" works</div> <div id="ms__id68"> </div> <div>so the problem must be gedit </div> <div>On 7/10/07, andy baxter <<a href="mailto:andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk">andy@earthsong.free-online.co.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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* < <a href="mailto:jimmywu013@gmail.com">jimmywu013@gmail.com</a> >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jimmywu013@gmail.com">jimmywu013@gmail.com</a>>> 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 >> ?!? >> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>