Hello, Did a different user create the file? If so, you’ll need to use the chown command. If it was the same user, you can try the chmod command.
$ chmod u+r address.csv It’s been years since I used alpine, but does alpine want the file with a specific filename? HTH Gena On 19 Dec 2013, at 18:56, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I got an app in the app store to convert my Mail contacts into a cSV file. I > then put it in my home directory. when I specify it as an alternate address > book in Alpine, I get an error message that permission is denied and the file > is unreadable. Where can I go from here? > > Thanks, > teresa > > Sent using Alpine messaging system in Mac OS X Terminal > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.