Hi, I've enabled the 'library_import_dir' option in universe_wsgi.ini as: library_import_dir = /homes/www-galaxy/data_import It's contents is: www-galaxy@ge-004: data_import> ls -l total 96 lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-galaxy barton 40 Mar 4 14:40 Dd_inuc_1.txt -> /homes/pschofield/data/TOH/Dd_inuc_1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 www-galaxy barton 142 Mar 5 13:50 README However, both files fail to import with this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/homes/www-galaxy/galaxy_devel/tools/data_source/upload.py", line 326, in __main__() File "/homes/www-galaxy/galaxy_devel/tools/data_source/upload.py", line 318, in __main__ add_file( dataset, error The strangeness comes in if I copy to the Dd_inuc_1.txt file a directory owned by the www-galaxy user and link to it there. Then, the imports works for both files. www-galaxy@ge-004: data_import> ls -l total 96 lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-galaxy barton 20 Mar 5 13:56 Dd_inuc_1.txt -> ../tmp/Dd_inuc_1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 www-galaxy barton 142 Mar 5 13:50 README The permissions are correct for the file: www-galaxy@ge-004: data_import> ls -l /homes/pschofield/data/TOH/Dd_inuc_1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 pschofield barton 966480362 Jan 18 16:39 /homes/pschofield/data/TOH/Dd_inuc_1.txt I've no idea why Galaxy cares about who owns the files as it should be able to see them, but something's screwy. Anyone have ideas as to what's going on here? Cheers, Chris -- Dr Chris Cole Senior Bioinformatics Research Officer School of Life Sciences Research University of Dundee Dow Street Dundee DD1 5EH Scotland, UK url: http://network.nature.com/profile/drchriscole e-mail: chris@compbio.dundee.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1382 388 721 The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish charity, No: SC015096