From: John B. <ba...@sh...> - 2004-02-05 16:54:20
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On Thursday 05 February 2004 08:01, Don Allingham wrote: > John, > > And just as a note, the 1.0 release (due in less than a week) will > provide a much clearer error message. You will get a popup window > describing the problem, not an obscure traceback message. > > Don > > Alex Roitman wrote: > >John, > > > >The error is caused by permission violation: you don't have permissions to > >write into the root directory, as the traceback says. > > > >Try creating a directory (folder) inside your home directory, e.g. > > $ mkdir /home/john_the_user/db_1 > >and then, when saving your data, choose that directory using file > > selector. You'd need to get inside that directory and click OK in file > > selector. Thanks again to you both. You can tell I'm a new convert to Linux! I'll upgrade to v. 1.0 asap from the v. that came with my RedHat download. -- John on Vancouver Island My genealogy page: http://members.shaw.ca/bart34/genealogy.html I use ArchiveCD Books in my research for myself and others. See: www.archivecdbooks.org |