Ah ha! It isn't the .xmms folder which had its permissions changed, but rather the "music" partition. That's a more straightforward explanation for these symptoms anyway - I shoulda clocked to that.
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:50:11 +0000, "Richard Urwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Friday 31 Oct 2003 11:37 pm, Tim Sawchuck wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:23:16 -0800 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribed on electronic parchment: > > > I have an xmms playlist of approx 600 songs which I've been listening > > > through. I was at about 150 when I upgraded from (mdk) 9.0 to 9.2. When I > > > loaded xmms, first time after upgrading, it couldn't even see the > > > directory that the mp3s were in (music/my-cd-backups) either in the > > > playlist editor or in the "eject" button from the main interace...it'd > > > just close the file browser if I tried to browse into there. > > > > > > It is something to do with my .xmms preferences; when I run xmms as root > > > from the command line it works fine, but when I run it as me from the > > > menu, it is screwed. Anyone encountered similar? I can just remove .xmms, > > > I don't care particularly. Just wondered whether anyone had noticed. > > > > I had a similar situation when I changed from RH to MDK and used the same > > drive mounted /home. Permissions changed on some files and directories. > > Check the permissions on .xmms to see if it is higher than what your user > > can access. You may have to su and change them. I had to do half my /home > > directories and files! > > If you add the users in a different order than you did originally, then > they > end up with different user IDs. So your old files are owned by a > different > user. > # chown -R username.username directory > (That is your username twice; once as the username and once as the group > that > only you belong to.) > > -- > Richard Urwin > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Consolidate POP email and Hotmail in one place
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