Hi everyone,

I am unable to delete a file from my website because of "insufficient permissions". I use CuteFTP and it says the owner is "99".

Does anyone know how to overcome this?

What kind of account do you hold ?
Do you have root access ?

Assuming that you're unable to login to your FTP space as user '99' then my recommendation would be to contact your host.

If you have a VPS with SSH access then you may be able to delete the file that way.

Or try editing the permissions with your control panel, what about through shell access (most likely not on a shared server). Other than that, as Damien mentioned, please contact your web host.

Chmod the file to 0x777 and then try to delete it. If this fails to work for some reason contact your web hosting provider support.

Using Cute FTP, select the file on the server and right click, you'll see details on setting file permissions.

you could try to chmod it and make it read and writable.