run this,


find ~/ ! -uid `id -u` ! -gid `id -g`


On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Civilme and friends:
> 
> I am so happy to hear that you can successfully backup files in SO51a. I
> just tried it again, making sure that the "Always create backup" is
> checked in Options, General, Save" and then trying both the default
> paths for work folder and backup and my own. Both options involve
> documents that are in my /home partition (as is the entire SO program,
> including the binary, Office51 and docs.
> 
> Well, I failed once again. No problem saving. No error messages. Even
> when my backup fails, I still get NO error messages. What could this
> mean? In an earlier installation (when my SO binary had root
> permissions) I got either a permissions error about saving (which made
> sense since I had installed the 'root" SO binary as user) and an error
> message about backups ("can't do backups"). 
> 
> This time everything seems to be right: I changed the "root" 70 meg SO
> binary to "sher" SO and then installed it as user. No problem saving, no
> error messages at all but still won't create an automatic backup of my
> files upon saving.
> 
> Since Civilme has no problem creating a backup, then this proves that SO
> should be able to create a backup in my case, too.
> 
> What could possibly be wrong?
> 
> Hope somebody out there can troubleshoot this. It's probably very
> simple.
> 
> Thanks so much to everyone.
> 
> Benjamin
> 
> 

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