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That sounds like a good idea – what bothers me a bit about leaving it unlocked is it seems like someone could somehow gain access to edit the .htaccess files since they are visible and unlocked. But maybe that isn’t the case, I don’t know. I’m not that worried because I don’t think anyone but me ever looks at my blog anyway!

Anyway, thanks again – and good luck!

I am not quite sure I understand, but I did find the Lock/Unlock buttons. I turned off autolock but did not know what, if anything, I should edit in the .htaccess file(s). And when I then locked the .htaccess fle, I got locked out of my site again with the 403 error. So I went back and changed my root .htaccess file permission from 404 to 644 again at my host site. And now I have access again – until the next BP update I guess. So am I to understand that I just need to leave it unlocked? Or is there something I need to change in the actual .htaccess file? Or will I just keep having to do this – change permissions on my host site back to 644? It obviously will not work at 404 – although I am quite sure it used to. This is a relatively new problem and seems to have begun about the time I had my host transfer my WordPress account from my lebookbusiness.com domain to my new lindabook.us domain. (I am still not sure they did that right, either.)

Thank you – I apologize for my ignorance. I am still learning WordPress.