maparus Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 I just had to reinstall Mandriva 2006. Before when I wanted to move a file, for instance a file from desktop to documents I would right click the file and have two options copy the file or move the file, I'd make my choise and left click the file hold the button down and a tree would open for me to drag the file to where I wanted. I like that setup but now since I reinstalled Those two options are not there when I right click a file. How do I get the options back? Many thanks maparus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Make sure your rights are not messed up with the reinstallation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maparus Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Make sure your rights are not messed up with the reinstallation. I'm not sure what you mean??????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 (edited) Ixthus most likely means if you have sufficient permissions to access those files. Edited March 13, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 I noticed that if I try to move files that my user does not own, I don't get the options in the menu. With a reinstall, it is possible that only root has permissions on the old files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maparus Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 I noticed that if I try to move files that my user does not own, I don't get the options in the menu. With a reinstall, it is possible that only root has permissions on the old files. So how do I get the permission back to move thee files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Easiest way is: chown user:group filename/directoryname For example, for user ian, this is what I would put: chown ian:ian filename chown -R ian:ian directoryname and that should do the trick. The -R is recursive, so if you have multiple files/directories under a folder, it will reset permissions on all of them. Note the above is two examples, one for files, one for directories. Working example, you have a file called doc1 on your desktop, so: chown ian:ian /home/ian/Desktop/doc1 or you want to reset /home/ian so that the user ian has all access rights: chown -R ian:ian /home/ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maparus Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 This is what I got [root@localhost maparus]# chown-R maparus:maparus/home/maparusch bash: chown-R: command not found Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angst Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 This is what I got [root@localhost maparus]# chown-R maparus:maparus/home/maparuschbash: chown-R: command not found Maybe you made a typo but you need to leave a space between chown and the -R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Maybe you made a typo but you need to leave a space between chown and the -R. and before /home/maparusch... chown -R maparus:maparus /home/maparusch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maparus Posted March 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Maybe you made a typo but you need to leave a space between chown and the -R. and before /home/maparusch... chown -R maparus:maparus /home/maparusch It wasn't a type error I screwed up. I did just as you decribed above and no errors popped up so I quess it worked. But I still don.t have the two options. Amy other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Hmmm... Have you ran the kde updates after the reinstall? Maybe it was a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 What securits level is set on your system? High or normal? Setting the security level to "high" without finetuning permissions later might cause the problems you are experiencing now. If it is set to "high", change the sec-level to "normal" and retry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maparus Posted March 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Security is set at normal and I haven't started my updates yet. I have a slow dial up connection and wanted to get this out of the way before I started the long process of doing the updates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Have you tried using this as a method for moving the files: mv /home/username/Desktop/filename /home/username/ change the path details so that it fits your system. Check where you moved the file to to see if it did actually move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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