Hoping someone can help; To copy on old hard drive with multiple user accounts onto a new drive I changed the ownership recursively to all files and folders on the old drive to root. I must have changed the ownership on more than the old HDD because I noticed that Nautilus had locked me out of my home directory. After the old drive was copied I changed the ownership of my user account using chown -R user_name (from the home directory). below is a current directory list: drwx--x--x. 36 james james 4096 Sep 5 16:53 james > drwx------. 2 root root 16384 Sep 2 21:13 lost+found > I have access to my user directories now however I have notice the following when I attempt to bring up gedit to configure Apache: [root@cgws1 sbin]# gedit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf > > (gedit:2673): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into > `/root/.local/share/recently- used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create > file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.F2PF1V': No such file or > directory > > (gedit:2673): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of > `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or > directory > I don't know if this is related to the permission/ownership issue or if it is associated wiht the following recent adjustments made to SELinux made to set permissions for Apache to use the new DocumentRoot assignment I set up for virtual hostingon my web development server. The document root is /home/user_name/sites Permission settings for Apache: SELinux settin changes: -- James