Ben Read added the comment: Good news - ran the sudo command, entered the password but I could still not make the directory, but I could within Finder - this time without a password. Tried the IDLE application again and it now works.
Thank you once again for your help in resolving this. Regards, Ben Begin forwarded message: > From: Ben Read <b...@denmarkfarmbarn.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [issue17864] IDLE won't run > Date: 29 April 2013 22:12:03 BST > To: Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > > Thank you for getting me this far - it's funny that Python has been the > program to make this problem apparent, but looking closer, there are other > issues such as not being able to create a new folder in the user folder > without entering username and password. > > I appreciate your help in diagnosing the problem. > > Ben > > > On 29 Apr 2013, at 10:37, Ned Deily <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > >> >> Ned Deily added the comment: >> >> The "ls" shows that, for some reason, your home directory is owned by user >> "temp", not by user "ben". That's not good. Try doing this: >> >> sudo chown ben /Users/ben/ >> >> But we're way past an IDLE or Python problem here. This is a basic Unix >> system administration issue. >> >> ---------- >> >> _______________________________________ >> Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> >> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17864> >> _______________________________________ > ---------- title: IDLE fails to launch when it cannot create .idlerc directory -> IDLE won't run _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17864> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
