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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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sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda2 /media/bernardo/Macintosh

If you get an error paste it here.

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Here's what I got:

sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda2 /media/bernardo/Macintosh mount: /media/bernardo/Macintosh: mount point does not exist.

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Create the mountpoint before mounting the device.

sudo mkdir /media/bernardo/Macintosh

sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda2 /media/bernardo/Macintosh

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Create the mountpoint before mounting the device.

sudo mkdir /media/bernardo/Macintosh

I did that and didn't get an error, so I didn't check, but the mount point didn't create.