Desktop folders are read only now

[Steve]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 00:45, Scott Talbot wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 13:20 -0400, John & Christine wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 02:13:06 -0700, Steve <steve.bolam at telus.net> wrote:
> > > Tonight I was installing some goodies with yum and operating as root at
> > > times.  Now when I log in as myself, the Computer, Trash and My Home
> > > folders have become read only. What have I done, and how do I fix it.
> > > 
> > > I've only had Linux installed for a week and I thought I was getting the
> > > hang of it. Guess this is another reality check.
> > > 
> > > Thanx in advance,
> > > 
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> > 
> > Use Nautilus and look at the owner/permissions of one of the
> > now-read-only files/folders. (right click/properties/Permissions). If
> > it looks like the problem is permissions/ownership, open a terminal ,
> > su , nautilus again and fix the permissions.
> > John
> 
> 	A faster way of doing this is to open the terminal, su to root then
> enter at the # prompt: "chown -R --from=root:root mylogin:mylogin ~*"
> (without the quotation marks!).  This will find every file (-R) in your
> home directory that has permissions set to owner=root, group=root, and
> change them to your login name on both the owner and group.
> 
> For more info about chown use man chown at the terminal prompt.
> 
> HTH 
> 
> Scott
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> [root at d207-81-8-112 bigdaddy]# chown -R --from=root:root bigdaddy:bigdaddy ~*
chown: cannot access `~*': No such file or directory
This is the output I get.

When I  look at the properties for my home directory I see

Basic
 
Location: /home
Volume : Root Volume

Permissions 

File owner: bigdaddy - Steve

Owner Group and Others read write and execute boxes checked

Text view: drwxrwxrwx
Number view: 777

but at the bottom of the tab it says,

You are not the owner, so you cant change these permissions.