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On 02/05/17 16:56, Julian Hall wrote: > The folder Mine is inside the Word folder, so the following is from a > terminal: > > Cerce Word # chmod -R 777 Mine > Cerce Word # dir > 2017.pdf Books Cypher\ Challenge friends.wav hole-hearted.wav > Letters Mine Misc test.doc > > However files inside the folder Mine are still locked claiming another > user has them open. So I tried copying two files I /can/ open from /home > onto the NAS to see if I can still access them. They won't open either.. > with the same permissions set. It seems to be a definite NFS problem > then. The current fstab entry for the NAS is: Definitely don't worry about the nfs thing for the moment - it's definitely an issue as well unfortunately, but one thing at a time... Your terminal output is, erm, not that helpful I'm afraid. I *think* what's happening here as well as OpenOffice being awful (now fixed by switching to Libre) AND permissions being mangled by nfs somehow (still need to fix that) is probably an errant lock file left as a temporary scrap. Presuming you're on machine Cerce instead the same directory "Word", try issuing this is in a terminal: chown -R $USER:$USER Mine ls -alh Mine This will reset the entire directory recursively to your user:group IDs just to be on the safe side, and ls will give the long list format of the target directory afterwards so we can see any hidden files and all permission details. Your "dir" was in the wrong directory and won't show up those pesky Office lock files which I suspect we'll shortly see. You are definitely at risk of mangling some of your files here as the minor issues stack up so really, really be careful about only working on copies. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq