Raspberry Pi 5 and Home folder

I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 and am working through the manual. According to the manual, in the attached document, I'm supposed to move some simple files from the Downloads folder to the Home folder. But the system says I'm not allowed to do that. I have a screenshot of the error message. Sorry for the image quality. I had to take a screenshot of it with my iPhone.

The words in your photo are too blurred to be read.
If your phone automatically produces thumbnails of each photo then I think you have posted the thumbnail not the photo itself.
Or did you, perhaps, use some utility to make the filesize only 3KB?

You can post photos within your text rather than as attachments by clicking on the Insert image icon on the post-editing toolbar.


Your photo:-



Denis

I've tried resizing the picture to below 1 MB, but the website still says the file is too large.

Here's what the error message says:

The file operation was completed with errors.
Moving file: spot_the_diff.png
To: /home
Data transferred: 573.7 KiB / 537.7 KiB
Error occurred: spot_the_diff.png: Error moving file /home/skybear400raspberrypi/spot_the_diff.png: Permission denied.

So what are your permissions on the folder?
File explorer,
Home,
skybear400raspberrypi,
right-click,
Properties,
Security,
Advanced,
Effective access.
- While you are at it, who does it say is the folder owner?
- While you are at it, what are your permissions on other subfolders?

Denis

Do you mean you are dropping it on what appear to be folders in the Quick access section - such as these Desktop, Documents, ... entries?


If so, right click on the item and select Properties to see where the folder actually is so you can check it out.
The icons shown as folders in Home are not actually folders, they are shortcuts to folders [despite the icon MS use for them].

And perhaps you could post a screenshot of Home/skybear400raspberrypi so your situation can be better understood.

Denis

Tasmania Green said:

I had to take a screenshot of it with my iPhone

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Why couldn't you just take & post a normal screenshot?


Denis

You probably misunderstood the instructions. They mean to copy the files to the home user folder of your Raspberry device. This in Windows 11 is the folder C:\users\yourusername. The respective folder that has all the user accessible folders in Raspberry. Not the root folder of the device of course, you need special access for that.

spapakons said:

You probably misunderstood the instructions. They mean to copy the files to the home user folder of your Raspberry device. This in Windows 11 is the folder C:\users\yourusername. The respective folder that has all the user accessible folders in Raspberry. Not the root folder of the device of course, you need special access for that.

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Thanks. I’ll try that.

spapakons said:

You probably misunderstood the instructions. They mean to copy the files to the home user folder of your Raspberry device. This in Windows 11 is the folder C:\users\yourusername. The respective folder that has all the user accessible folders in Raspberry. Not the root folder of the device of course, you need special access for that.

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Here's an update:

I erased the program and retyped it.

Once I finished, I ran it and got the following error message:
difference = pygame.image.load('spot_the_diff.png')
FileNotFoundError: No file 'spot_the_diff.png' found in the working directory '/home/skybear400raspberrypi/Projects'.
I realised the program was that not everything was in the same folder:
' spot_the_diff.png' - was in the /home/skybear400raspberrypi/Projects directory
But the program, 'Spot the difference.py' was in the '/home/skybear400raspberrypi/' directory.

Once I put everything into he same directory, Projects, the error message didn't appear. Unfortunately, the pygame window is completely black.

But in the next paragraph, the document writes "To have the image on the screen for a longer period of time, add the following line just about pygame.quit():
sleep(3)

That did it. The image of the witch standing in front of a cauldron stayed on screen. Evidently, it did appear on the screen before, but only for so short a time that it looked like it didn't appear at all.

Hopefully this will help someone else who is learning to program with RaspberryPi 5.