I pasted my home directory into /home from Mandrake 8 on the same box as
root.  Then I found this wouldn't work in Mandrake 9, probably the dot
files. so I renamed it but I found I couldn't write to it.  I opened
nautilus from su and changed the properties and ticked the change
subdirectories box but this was not implemented.  As I have 100 mb plus of
files it was laborious to open each directory and change them.. however by
running chmod -R 777 files from the command line it was all done.  So must
be a bug as why nautilus doesn't push through and complete the task.

There are a couple of other possibly irrelevant details, I first created a
user DRG which is ok with adduser by not with Mandrake as it uses capitals.
I then changed the name to files and the owner to my main log in.  So it
was messed around abit.

I love Gnome2 by the way and especially the antialiasing is great.  I
prefer it to KDE 3.

Al the best and thanks.

David.