Comment 2 for bug 125364

I believe the issue is that keep is trying to backup files which are owned by root. I'm not backing up as root, and have the box checked for keep not to backup special files. keep should simply skip files for which it doesn't have permissions, not crash with cryptic error messages. Since a number of programs, including google earth, create files for which the user doesn't have permission, keep appears to be pretty useless.