I cannot create sub folders in Dolphin Documents folder. Not permitted.
I can create them a script and confirm they exist but are not visible in Dolphin.
My system may be remotely hosted / rooted. KDE gives no indication of such.
What is my fault and how do I fix it?
First step is to open Konsole and check the permission on the folder.
zeus@9600k:~$ ls -l
total 68
drwxrwxr-x 12 zeus zeus 4096 Jan 10 18:37 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 zeus zeus 4096 Dec 14 23:38 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 11 zeus zeus 4096 Jan 10 20:22 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 zeus zeus 16384 Jan 10 19:12 Downloads
-rw------- 1 zeus zeus 6215 Jan 6 18:10 mbox
drwxr-xr-x 4 zeus zeus 4096 Aug 29 09:00 Music
drwxr-xr-x 12 zeus zeus 4096 Jan 2 07:49 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 zeus zeus 4096 Jan 21 2022 Public
drwxrwxr-x 2 zeus zeus 4096 Jul 24 2022 Templates
drwxrwxr-x 2 zeus zeus 4096 Jan 26 2024 Videos
You should see similar to what I have looking the drwxr-xr-x
and zeus zeus part of the line. The first is the permissions of the directory the second is the owner which should match your username. If it is in the rwxr-xr-x that is incorrect the chmod 0755 Documents to correct that if the user is incorrect then chown username:username Documents. You may need to put a sudo in front of the commands if it stills tells you that you do not have the permission to do it.
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Hard to say, some folks enjoy running GUI applications as root - but until you list out the directory nobody will have a clue…
Even in Dolphin, you could enable Permissions and Owner columns to see what’s what…
I can create them a script and confirm they exist
This made no sense.
I would open Dolphin, then press F4 to get a Konsole window in Dolphin - take it from there.
Another alternative would be to restore a backup of your home directory.