Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nautilus
A directory with some files in it nested down three from the home directory. /home/user/name\ rest_of_name/Second\ Name/ has foo in it as a subdirectory foo and two other files. The "Second\ Name" directory had permissions of r-xr-xr-x, once this was changed to rwx the directory foo became "unknown" to the system. "foo" and its contents were visible and I was able to work with them from the command line. I made foo and the files below it rwxrwxrwx (it is a single user machine and they are not very important). After several restarts of nautilus, I logged out of GNOME and logged in again. I was able to work with the files in this directory with no issues. ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- [dapper] Permissions on changed directory not read even after restart of nautilus. GNOME needed a restart. https://launchpad.net/bugs/60720 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs