Error at startup - EACCES: permission denied

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Android Messages as a Cross-platform Desktop App

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Error at startup - EACCES: permission denied #149

Closed franckgaga closed 5 years ago

franckgaga commented 5 years ago

Hi,

I'm running on Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon 64 bit (linux kernel 4.15.0-46-generic)

I have the following error message at the start up of the app :

It's worth mentioning that the app is still fully usable when i click "OK"

Thanks !

ajivoin commented 5 years ago

I was getting that error after updating to 0.9.1. I had to completely re-install for it to go away.

franckgaga commented 5 years ago

I've just tried full re-installation of 0.9.1 and it did not solves the issue...

chrisknepper commented 5 years ago

I checked this out today in Ubuntu and I can confirm it happening. It looks like this is happening because in Linux, the app only has the permission to write new files and overwrite files in that folder, not delete files. I can fix this but it will take a little time--in the meantime you may be able to work around this by doing either of these things:

Going to the folder where the app is installed and deleting all the files inside the resources/dictionaries folder
Exiting the program, running it once as root, then running it normally

jjgalvez commented 5 years ago

just updated to 1.0.0 and no errors

franckgaga commented 5 years ago

yep, 1.0.0 solve the problem, thanks for the support !

chrisknepper commented 5 years ago

This should now be fixed in the latest release, v3.0.0