Hi David

Three things  ... first you said $HOME/david/bin rather than $HOME/bin - did you
mean the first one, in which case does ~david/david/bin exist as a directory. I suspect
you meant the second though (i.e. ~david/bin), but worth checking what you have
written as the path.

Second, I've just tried it with kwrite deliberately typing $HOME/bin/TEST into the
"Location:" part of the save window, and I get this error ...

"The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write file:///home/neill/Desktop/$HOME/bin/TEST.
Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available."

which I guess is what you are seeing. Check what the dialog says at the "write file" bit and see
if that path is what you wanted. If it isn't then I think you are using the dialog box incorrectly.
Where,  at the top of the dialog, it  says something like /home/david/Desktop) change it to your bin directory (use the
arrows on the side, or just type /home/david/bin in instead and press return which will take you
to the bin directory), and then in the Location: part type just the name of the file. Kwrite combines whatever
is in the top line with whatever you write in the second part, so you are probably not saving to where you
think you are trying to save to.

Their dialog message is a little misleading - they don't warn you that the directory path might not
exist either, which I suspect is the problem.

Third, cd to ~david/bin (or ~david/david/bin) and type
touch test
to create a test file inside that directory.
Do you have permission to write? If you do then it is not permissions.

Regards

Neill

David wrote:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 21:44:21 -0400
RickS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  
David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
    
Hi all,
      
hi David,

    
I want to use a different signature for one of the mailing lists I'm
on, however I get refused permission to save the file into my 'bin'
directory.
The signature is written in the same manner as the one below in
kwrite but on saving I'm told: 
     	"Check that you have write access to this file or that
  	enough disk space is available."
      
Are you saying this is the same process used to write your signature
currently and saving *this* file, whatever it's named, can't be
saved to the $HOME/bin ?
    

Yes...my current signature is in $HOME/david/bin and thats where i want
to save the new one to, which is a variation of the current sign.

  
Permissions on my 'bin' directory are set at 755 and I'm the
owner...have checked these a couple of times. Space also is not a
problem.
      
does this file already exist ? the error may indicate that it may...
and if it does, does it have -w- write permissions ?
    

No it does not exist already (I've even tried to save the new one under
several different names all to no avail)

  
The file saves into my 'Document' directory, which has the same
permissions/ownership as 'bin'. I'm denied permission to copy the
file from my 'Documents' to my 'bin' directory.
      
Can't help with this since I removed this *Documents* directory, per
the Release notes, I think ...

HTH
    

Thanks anyway Rick...appreciated.


  

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