I had a system freeze and had to reboot the computer. When the computer came back up, I was missing some sub-directories of the directory /pictures. Using Suse 8.1. I tried chmod +x and it did not help. I have also tried chown and chgrp without sucess. Here is a copy of doing a dir of /pictures. I am also unable to access a couple of directories under /pictures/raw, which gives the same permission denied. ls: kids: permission denied ls: download: permission denied total 1 drwxr-xr-x 8(user) users 168 2003-07-13 17:12 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 688 2003-07-13 17.19 .. drwxr-xr-x 10 (user) users 248 2003-01-22 19:54 numbered drwxr-xr-x 12 (user) users 368 2003-01-22 19:44 raw drwxr-xr-x 2 (user) users 528 2003-07-13 13:56 temp I am not sure, but I am thinking that the '.' and '..' are the directories I am unable to access. If I try to create a new directory of kids/download, it gives me 'access denied to /pictures/kids/download. Anyone had an idea how I can get these directory back so I can access them? Paul T.