Re: Error with org-persist

[Ihor Radchenko]

Al Oomens <aloomens@outlook.com> writes:

> Greetings, I have never posted to this list before.

Welcome!

> ... recently started getting this
> error when I first open a .org file:
>
> 'Missing write access rights to org-persist-directory: "c:/Users/aloom/My 
> Drive/home/.emacs.d/org-persist/"'.
>
> I am using emacs v29.2 on Windows 11. Org-mode is 9.6.21
>
> This started happening fairly recently, perhaps when I upgraded Emacs? Also 
> note, that I have my $HOME in a Goggle Drive synced folder. Perhaps that has 
> something to do with this? Or perhaps the space in the PATH to my HOME 
> directory? Although, as I stated, I did not have this error until fairly 
> recently.

The message you are seeing is displayed when Emacs has no write access
to your .emacs.d.
Check your FS write access settings along the path you see in the
message.

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