From: kalin Date: October 17 2012 2:31am Subject: error 13 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/228422 Message-Id: <507E1894.8070703@el.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi all.. this hasn't happened before... i'm in as root on the command line cleint. trying to load data infile '/path/to/file' file is owned by mysql and it has 777 permissions. the directory where the file is is also owned by mysql. when i do: mysql> load data infile '/path/to/file' etc... i get: ERROR 13 (HY000): Can't get stat of '/path/to/file' (Errcode: 13) ls -al /path/to/file lists the file... so why do i get errcode 13?! i'm on os x. thanks...