From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roger Mason Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: dired problem Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:12:11 -0330 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194194582 27257 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2007 16:43:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:43:02 +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 17:43:05 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 1IoiYx-0004o2-F8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:43:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoiYm-0004mU-TF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:42:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IoiYV-0004jZ-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IoiYU-0004j2-UU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:42:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mx5.mun.ca ([134.153.232.57] helo=fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IoiYU-0007h0-AP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:42:34 -0500 Original-Received: from minnie.esd.mun.ca (minnie.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.8]) by fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lA4GgCDC032178 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:12:12 -0330 Original-Received: from minnie.esd.mun.ca (minnie.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.8]) by minnie.esd.mun.ca (8.14.0/8.13.3) with ESMTP id lA4GgB3d032513 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:12:12 -0330 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.153.232.57 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:49007 Archived-At: Hello, 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? Thanks, Roger