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OK, gurus. Here's a fun one.

I have an old 3.5" drive from a buddy's iMac. The machine died but I was able to pull the drive and connect it to my Ubuntu machine. I see all of the folders but some of them have that damned little red X on them telling me I don't have the required permissions to access them. How do I; 1) force a permissions change, or 2) force the copy process anyway so I can give him the files on a thumb drive?

Thanks!

OK, gurus. Here's a fun one. I have an old 3.5" drive from a buddy's iMac. The machine died but I was able to pull the drive and connect it to my Ubuntu machine. I see all of the folders but some of them have that damned little red X on them telling me I don't have the required permissions to access them. How do I; 1) force a permissions change, or 2) force the copy process anyway so I can give him the files on a thumb drive? Thanks!

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How about sudo chmod 777 -R /path/*

That should blow away all permissions.

No joy here either. I've got to go focus on work for a bit. Thanks for the suggestion.

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It's probably mounted as ro then, you'll need to mount -o rw or mount -o remount,rw

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It's probably mounted as ro then, you'll need to mount -o rw or mount -o remount,rw

Yeah, that's what I've got to figure out when I have time to pay some actual attention to what I'm doing. :-D

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Mount it like you did before and then just issue a "sudo mount" command. That should list all mounted partitions and their status.