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#401
Originally Posted by scotty_m View Post
I had already run chmod but it's not changing permissions - doing ls -la afterwards shows that nothing has changed for that file. I don't know why it's ignoring me setting permissions
Is the file in your MyDocs folder? IIRC that is formatted with FAT32 filesystem which does not support permissions. Move it to /home/user rather than /home/user/MyDocs and try again.