On Sunday 13 March 2005 2:55 pm, Chris Walker wrote:
Have you tried, or asking a.n.other to try, editing those files on a Windows box to see if it's a problem with the file itself?
Thanks all who responded but I have now solved this problem.
In a perfect example of not checking the bleeding obvious, it was because some of the files were set to read only (this makes sense as for a while all of my mp3's were held on CD's and I think when you copy files from a CD in windows the Read only attribute stays set)
To be honest in my defence I didn't even know ext3 had a read only file attribute, the existence of which seems a little redundant anyway.
The behaviour seems a little erratic in Linux (remember that I was able to delete the file using konqueror, but not change the meta info) and it has been completely erratic in Windows except when in the DOS (s)hell for ages