austin987 wrote: > Where were they before? Is ~/games on a different partition? > > -- > -Austin The tilde stands for my home directory: /home/{user}, so ~/games stands for /home/itzamna/games/. I don't know the exact mechanism by which this workaround operates, but I think it has something to do with GVFS (Gnome's virtual file system), as it has its own subset of permissions. I must say, my Gentoo box sure is secure!