Quote Originally Posted by cbagger01
The previous command should have launched a Konqueror file manager window that was owned by user "root".
Oh. Yeah. Duh. Once you pointed that out, I stood in the corner and ate paste for a while, then got about my merry business exactly as described.

And now, thanks to all of you, my files are happily ensconced on a mishmash collection of external drives, soon to be combined into a single happy, handy enclosure where I will back up scrupulously, never again assume the safety of RAID just because it's always written in caps, and avoid implementing technologies that I do not fully understand.

You all have my deepest thanks. I'm back in the saddle. If I could buy you all a beer, I most certainly would.

Thanks again,

Seth