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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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ls -la /Path/To/Users

'/Path/To/Users' only, not '/Path/To/Users/[USERNAME]'.

Copy and paste the result here.

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Slightly modified to protect the guity:

$ ls -la Users total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 6 Mar 8 2014 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 38 Sep 26 2014 .. drwxr-xr-x 1 501 dialout 21 Mar 14 2015 foldername drwxr-xr-x 1 201 201 11 Mar 8 2014 Guest -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 25 2013 .localized drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 11 Dec 5 2015 Shared

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drwxr-xr-x 1 201 201 11 Mar 8 2014 Guest

You have to change the user:group with chown as mentioned in my first comment.

sudo chown root:wheel -R Guest

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I forgot to mention that failed. This was the output:

chown: invalid group: ‘root:wheel’