Hello,
I have just installed Mandriva 2011 on my laptop but there is not "Create" option in the Dolphin's context menu.

What shall I do?

Right click on white space inside Dolphin, you should see a menu, Create New --> on the drop down you can create several different types of files. Create one. Then open the file with the appropriate application. That is it.

This is the problem there is no create new option in the menu
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It all depends where you are in the directory structure, and how the permissions are set for that location. If you go to /home/youruser/ can you create files there? That should work.

The location in the image you posted appears to be on a 9 gig drive. Where is it mounted? Look at the permissions on the mount point. The files that are there appear to be system files, I think your user does not have write permission at that location.

You can add a 'permission button' to the Main Toolbar if you do not like using the command line. Place your mouse on the Main toolbar, right click, select "configure toolbars" look through the 'available actions' and add the permissions to the 'current actions' and click apply. Go to the point where you think you want to add a file. Now look at the permissions. I suspect this is a root user and root group location.

Well, it is not working in the home folder as well
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although I was able to create files from the Folder View widget and directly on the desktop and I can paste the clipboard contents into a file, the file would be created with no problems. so I think it is not a permissions problem

and here are the permissions on the /media folder
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First of all, the first picture you show is in the /home folder, this is normally owned by root, not the user. So, unless you modify the owner, or permissions, you will not be able to create files here. For good reasons, you should not.

The second picture shows the permissions as anyone can Read, Write, and execute. This is not a normal setup either. Here is what mine looks like.

Here, root is the owner, and can r,w,x. Root group, r,x Other r,x. I much prefer looking at this sort of thing with the command line, one command and you know the whole story.

Access to any directory is controlled by two things, The owner, and the permissions. To understand, you have to look at both.

Your /home dir. Open a command line, navigate to home. Usually a konsole opens in /home/youruser ; not /home. So from /home/youruser back up, enter two periods, after the cd command, like this 'cd ..' ( no quotes ) press enter. Do an ls command to verify where you are. Then do a 'ls -ld /home/youruser' ( no quotes, and change youruser to your users name. Then you will have the whole picture of your users home directory. It should be owned by you, group can vary, and other permissions will be shown.

Back out to '/' . Now do a 'ls -ld /home'. This should be owned by root, and the group will be root. So, no, you as a user can not write in it, unless you change the default setup.

I do not recommend you do that on /home.

Now, to be complete, to change ownership, or group, you have to become root user. I kunbuntu, user the sudo command before the command you need to execute as root. The command to change ownership is 'chown'. The command to change permissions is 'chmod' There are detailed explanations of how to use these command in the man pages. So, in a konsole, 'man chown' and 'man chmod' will give you the details. There are also lots of "How Tos" on the internet. Here is just one example.

-->http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/ftp/ftp_chmod.htm

First I would like to thank you very much for the time you put in the replies.

This was not the /home folder it was /home/username so it is MY folder and I can write to it without any feers and creating folders was never the problem in face it is working perfectly normal everywhere

While typing this post I thought of trying Konqueror and see if the same problem persists and I found the menu with everything I wish for. and I am able to create files anywhere on my HDD. here is a side by side screenshot of dolphin and konqueror
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I hope you do believe that it is not a permissions problem an help me to solve it.

Thank you again for your efforts and patience.

What version of KDE are you using? I just installed 4.6.5 on Mageia1 and no problems with creating files using Dolphin.

Just a thought!

My version is 4.6.5 too.

I have just found this link: http://lists.mandriva.com/bugs/2011-07/msg01095.php
this is the exact problem but it was in the rc2 release of mandriva and I am using the final version

So, it is a bug after all! is there any workaround or patch so I can get through it?

Then it must be a bug. Have you checked Mandriva buzilla or their website? Keep us informed if you get it resolved.

So this only fails in Dolphin? You can create files where you want, if you are not using Dolphin? If this is the case, you are correct, this is not a permission issue. It looked that way to me, up to this mornings post.

Do report the problem, and please update this post if there is a fix.

I posted a question at mandrivausers.org and I got this reply:

I am waiting for a reply if there is a way to fix it.