Re: [Gramps-bugs] Gramps99-1 Bug Report, Database Save Error

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

Wally,

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:13:32AM -0600, Wally Murdoch wrote:
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> Now I go to "File, Save" and a error dialog box opens: Could not create=
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> <filenamepath/data.gramps. An error was detected while trying to create t=
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> file.
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> If there is no data.gramps file there is no problem.

Can you check whether you have permissions to write into your database=20
directory? For example, try copying some file (say, ~/.bashrc) into your=20
database directory:
  $ cp ~/.bashrc my_database_dir

If that goes without problems, then try to see if youd data.gramps file=20
is for some reason read-only:
  $ cd my_database_dir
  $ ls -l data.gramps

You should see something like this:
-rw-r--r--    1 shura    shura      760658 Jan 18 01:16 data.gramps

That is, it should be owned by you (your username instead of "shura")=20
and it should have -rw in the beginning of the permission bits.

Let me know what you get, and we go from there.

Thanks,
Alex

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