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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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I see AOU is working through this with you, but if you can't get it going, you could try booting an OSX image and work through it from there.

I haven't run a hackintosh since OSX Snow Leopard, but iAtkos builds were what I used to use.

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I haven't run a hackintosh since OSX Snow Leopard, but iAtkos builds were what I used to use.

A fine idea! Let's hope I can get the simple file-copy to work. If not I can set it up so I can boot from the drive.