Locked Directories

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 12:01:59 MST 2010


most commonly it is a securty/permissions setting

for example if use use sudo or are a root user when you create the
directory at the cli then run your x as a normal users it will be
locked and you will not have access until you run nautilus/whatever
kde uses from that same elevated permission.

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Eric - A <ericallen3 at juno.com> wrote:
> I have noticed that when I create a directory from "terminal" using the
> command: mkdir Test, it creates the directory just fine but when looked at from gnome
> desktop it has a lock icon on it, what causes that?
> .
> Eric - A
> .
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Stephen


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