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From: James Alexander Cook <james.cook@utoronto.ca>
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On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:09:12PM -0400, jbw wrote:
> I backed up a few DVDs to my harddrive using dvdbackup. However I cannot 
> However I cannot cd into the directories that were created to view the
> files as a normal user or as root.  I can do an ls -lR and it will
> show me all of the files in the directories. I can change the
> permissions on the directories using chmod. I am the owner of the
> files. du -h shows the amount of space the files are taking up. But I
> cannot cd, mv, cp or do anything else to the directories even as root.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on what the problem is?
> 
> thanks
> 
> -jbw

Do you have execute permission on the directories?  Try "chmod 700 dir" where
dir is the directory you want to enter.

- James Cook
  james.cook@utoronto.ca