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Permission Denied rm -rf and rmvirtualenv

I am trying to upgrade a virtualenv. I rmvirtualenv but it was unable to remove some files/folders and now I am unable to rm -rf those files or folders either

``` rm: cannot remove '/home/Venturafranklin/.virtualenvs/testCMT/lib/python3.6/site-packages/~sycopg2': Permission denied

rm: cannot remove '/home/Venturafranklin/.virtualenvs/testCMT/lib/python3.6/site-packages/~eportlab/lib': Permission denied

rm: cannot remove '/home/Venturafranklin/.virtualenvs/testCMT/lib/python3.6/site-packages/~IL/.libs': Permission denied ```

I am unable to change permissions on these folders and I have no access to sudo/su. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thank you for your help!

Venturafranklin | 12 posts | July 26, 2021, 4:31 a.m. | permalink

That's weird. Could you try again now?

fjl | 4352 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | July 26, 2021, 10:48 a.m. | permalink

Yes it works now, thank you!

Anything I could have done? This was the staging site, I now need to do the same thing with prod.

Venturafranklin | 12 posts | July 26, 2021, 2:17 p.m. | permalink

rmvirtualenv worked fine for the prod upgrade.

Venturafranklin | 12 posts | July 26, 2021, 2:37 p.m. | permalink

Thanks for confirming that!

pafk | 2973 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | July 26, 2021, 4:07 p.m. | permalink