Unable to delete file (permissions error)
Posted: 2021-02-24 09:08
Hi,
I have a very large zip file (16gb) in my httpdocs directory that I need to remove but when trying to delete through FileZilla I get "550 myfilename.zip: Permission denied". It has the permissions 664 on it along with most other files in the httpdocs folder. If I try and change to e.g. 775 on that file I get "550 CHMOD 775 myfilename.zip: Operation not permitted". When using the Plesk file manager instead I get "Unable to remove /httpdocs/myfilename.zip: filemng failed: filemng: Error occurred during /bin/rm command." I've looked that error up and it seems one solution is to change the file permissions on the file's parent directory to recurse into the files, but if I do that on httpdocs it will change the permissions for thousands of files in all the directories, which I don't want. It seems I can't upload files to httpdocs either as I get "Permission denied Critical file transfer error". Am I just stuffed unless the server admin will agree to change my permissions? I'm not familiar with using SSH, but not sure if that would help anyway, if it's a server permissions issue.
Thanks
I have a very large zip file (16gb) in my httpdocs directory that I need to remove but when trying to delete through FileZilla I get "550 myfilename.zip: Permission denied". It has the permissions 664 on it along with most other files in the httpdocs folder. If I try and change to e.g. 775 on that file I get "550 CHMOD 775 myfilename.zip: Operation not permitted". When using the Plesk file manager instead I get "Unable to remove /httpdocs/myfilename.zip: filemng failed: filemng: Error occurred during /bin/rm command." I've looked that error up and it seems one solution is to change the file permissions on the file's parent directory to recurse into the files, but if I do that on httpdocs it will change the permissions for thousands of files in all the directories, which I don't want. It seems I can't upload files to httpdocs either as I get "Permission denied Critical file transfer error". Am I just stuffed unless the server admin will agree to change my permissions? I'm not familiar with using SSH, but not sure if that would help anyway, if it's a server permissions issue.
Thanks