[Mick_H1]

Is it possible to delete a read only file? I haven't found a way through the 'normal' channels, i.e File Manager, or GPE File Manager.

It's only a .pdf invoice from my ISP that I downloaded via email that's residing in N900/Documents/

Thankees

[matthew_maude]

hold your finger/pointer on the file for a few seconds then a menu will appear with a delete option

[Mick_H1]

Thanks for the reply, but as it's a read only file that doesn't happen. If I got one on the N95 I just fired up Y-Browser and changed the attributes. But there's no Y-Browser for the 900.

There's probably a way to do it via X Terminal, like there is via the command prompt in Windows. Not sure what the commands are though.

[cpitchford]

how lame.. i would expect the file manager to work

you can use

chmod +w filename

in an xterm to add write permissions..

[matthew_maude]

seems odd, i can delete pdf's that way and aren't all pdf's read only?

[cpitchford]

Wrong type of read-only.. and no.. some PDFs can be altered if they contain a form to fill in, for example!

What's rediculous is that deleting a file is not the same as writing to it un Unix..

If you remove a file, where are you removing it from? you're removing it from a folder/directory.. so, you need write access to the folder, not the file!! I don't understand why it doesn't allow you override this, the permission can be altered using regular chmod.. but it could be overridden by the filemanager..

[justin_02]

hi, this happened to me with a corrupt mp3 file, the only way I was able to delete is was through my computer with N900 in mass storage mode.

[Mick_H1]

Sorted it via Justin_02's method in the end.

The chmod +w filename command kept returning a "File or folder does not exist error". So maybe I needed to work through to that directory and file first.

All donedid now anyway, thanks all.

[cpitchford]

Sorry for the brief instruction.. was between offices using phone to post!!

you need to find the filename in question, which can be tricky on the command line..

for example, a file in Documents directory called test.txt would be

chmod +w MyDocs/.documents/test.txt

Not wonderfully intuitive..

Alternatively, you can do a general attack using a recursive set

chmod -R +w MyDocs/.documents

chmod -R +w MyDocs/.images

would set all files in the Documents and Images folder

[Mick_H1]

Thanks for the info.

I'll make a note of all that.

Might be worth hunting down a bit more info to get the gist of this Terminal a bit more.

[matthew_maude]

i see what you mean about the limited options now cos i had the same problem with a rom i downloaded but in that case there is a loophole where you can delete the folder and inturn it delets the rom file contained in it. you need to maybe have a pdf folder ready to use then if you can't delete one just delete the folder, its a bit tedious cos you have to recreate the folder everytime you have this problem but you can do it on the go