I forgot to add this further info: I cannot access the music folder or its subfolders and files unless I become root (sudo su). I can then see the folders and files. This is the output of stat on the top level folder:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/diana# stat music File: `music' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 807h/2055d Inode: 16122206 Links: 69 Access: (0664/drw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ diana) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2007-06-07 10:26:00.000000000 +0100 Modify: 2007-05-22 15:42:32.000000000 +0100 Change: 2007-06-07 08:46:51.000000000 +0100 I'd be glad of advice about recovering access to the folder tree and files, as I'm fearful of making matters worse! -- Diana -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/