update on problem and foll error Cannot open file /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/trips/.googleroute.gpx error continues and still no suggestions for a fix- I am able to become root - cd to /home/user/MyDocs then do a ls and .documents is not shown - hidden? could this be the problem? cd .documents - ls and trips is visible cd trips - ls and nothing is shown. googleroutes.gpx should be there. Again any help would be appreciated. Thanks
If it does exist, please verify the permissions on it. To do that you can post back the output from the following command in xterm- $ ls -l /home/user/.documents/ the trips dir should look like- drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 00:00 trips If the permissions or ownership are wrong, or the directory doesn't exist, that'll cause your problem.