I got the answer to this on another list, but being the nice guy I am ;-) I thought I would share it with the list: I created a new user, logged in as that user and brought up a console. Logged in as root, navigated to (cd) /home/newuser/KDesktop and then did a cp -r /home/mydirectory/KDesktop. Now everything works! The original message is below for those that can't remember that far back ;-) **Original message: I have a copy of source that I am trying to compile (see: PDF files won't open.) that I am trying to dish in my trash I keep getting an eror message that says: Access denied to /KDektop/Trash/gimp-print-4.3.0/lib/.deps/vasprintf.Plo There seem to be a lot of files in this /.deps/ folder that give the same error message. I realize that this is probably quite a simple problem, but I have never come across this before. Anyone with any ideas? Cheers, Brian