Re: Help wanted for Windows troubleshooting

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Mats Bengtsson schreef:
> > One aspect that complicates things is that there are four different
> > lilylib files that Python can consider to import:
> > 
> > ../usr/share/lilypond/current/python/lilylib.py
> > ../usr/share/lilypond/current/python/lilylib.pyc
> > ../usr/bin/lilylib.py
> > ../usr/bin/lilylib.pyc
> > 
> > When experimenting with the 2.8.5-1 package, it seems that convert-ly
> > (and the other Python scripts) work well as long as at least one of these
> > four files is present.
> > 
> > With the 2.9.13 package, there is some problem with
> > ../usr/share/lilypond/current/python/lilylib.py
> > just as you say, but as soon all the other three files seem to work well,
> > so if you just remove it from the distribution, I guess everything should
> > work well. Same goes for convertrules, where everything works well
> > as soon as you remove the convertrules.py file in .../python/.
> > Unfortunately I don't have the Windows competence to discover what
> > the problem is with these files.
> 
> I suspect it has something to do with extended attributes on the file.
> Unfortunately, I don't know how to inspect or change those.

It is going to be ugly, but you can use "cacls <fileordirectory>" to 
inspect the permissions (Access Control Lists; ACL), and "cacls 
<fileordirectory> /e /g<user>:f" to grant a user full access.

Hth,
Dscho