From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired problem Supersedes: Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:54:56 +0100 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194198038 5294 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2007 17:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 04 18:40:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IojSe-0004P0-3w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:40:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IojST-0007EH-Kj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:40:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.tiscali.de!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1194195297 24126 129.241.15.140 (4 Nov 2007 16:54:57 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:54:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Key: sha1:yDAX/ATTTeec062UGat75w4Mg/8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:d0CzPaFo60eQaGRRkPLtfdnCsAM= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153525 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49008 Archived-At: + Roger Mason : > I'm trying to use dired to delete some files. I mark them in the > dired buffer using % d and supply the regex. The files are marked by > D. I type 'x' and am asked to confirm deletion, which I do. However, > the files (which have -rwxrwxrwx permissions and are owned by by > username) are not deleted. Instead in the message buffer I see this: > > (file-error Removing old name permission denied ) > > Can someone point out what I'm doing wrong? You need write permission on the directory. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell