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
[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