Messed up permissions.

[-chaos-]

Something is wrong. First off:: Redhat 7.2, KDE 2.2.

So the problem is I cant edit a text file I put on my desktop, or edit anything or add anything to the directory /home/anton/Desktop/Download

I am user anton. In console mode i can copy stuff to my desktop without getting error messages.

[J-Tek]

Have you tried to look at your permissions w/ in your directory /home/anton

at the prompt go to /home

'ls -l' are you the owner of the directory (first column /w names) or if it's just your desktop go to /home/anton and do 'ls -l' if you dont have write permission then that's probably your problem. You should be owner of just about everything w/ in your directory.

login as root and change them. or better yet find out how that happened. did you copy some directories there as root?

hope that helps.