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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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Yes, if your partition to mount is /dev/sda2, you'd do "sudo mount -o rw /dev/sda2 /mnt/whateveryouwant"

That is, of course, after creating /mnt/whateveryouwant and making sure your user has rw permissions in that directory.

I don't have any experience with mac volumes, so it may not work that easily.