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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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Hmm. I just noticed something. When I enter "sudo chown -R bernardo Guest" I see all of the results have the following (or similar):

chown: changing ownership of 'Guest': Read-only file system

Then the results of the la -la command are:

la -la Guest total 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 201 201 11 Mar 8 2014 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root 80 6 Mar 8 2014 .. -rw------- 1 201 201 0 Mar 8 2014 .CFUserTextEncoding drwx------ 1 201 201 3 Mar 8 2014 Desktop drwx------ 1 201 201 3 Mar 8 2014 Documents drwx------ 1 201 201 4 Mar 8 2014 Downloads drwx------ 1 201 201 26 Mar 8 2014 Library drwx------ 1 201 201 3 Mar 8 2014 Movies drwx------ 1 201 201 3 Mar 8 2014 Music drwx------ 1 201 201 3 Mar 8 2014 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 1 201 201 4 Mar 8 2014 Public

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Read-only file system

God dammit! I asked you to check if your Mac volume was mounted as read/write! lol

You have to unmount and remount it with write enabled.

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God dammit! I asked you to check if your Mac volume was mounted as read/write! lol

You have to unmount and remount it with write enabled.

I know, and that's where I'm struggling right now.

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Use the following command to find your USB disk mountpoint

mount -v | grep "/" | awk '{print "\nPartition identifier: " $1 "\n Mountpoint: " $3}'

Paste the results here and I'll give you the right command to remount it with write enabled.