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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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Use root:root then or check one of your current linux user's folder user:group and just use that instead.

I tried root:root, root root, and myname:myname but nothing.

By "myname" I mean my actual name, which is the username for the machine. For example, sudo chown bernardo:bernardo -R Users

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Is the disk mounted as read/write and not read only?

Can you see the changes (ls -la) after you use chmod/chown commands on the Guest folder?

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Is the disk mounted as read/write and not read only?

The disk is simply connected to my laptop via a USB adapter cable.

Can you see the changes (ls -la) after you use chmod/chown commands on the Guest folder?

None of the commands have effected any changes.

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SO I was thinking (scary huh) I thought those old hard drives had physical pin setting on it to lock and unlock it so to speak....

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You need to make sure that the Mac HFS volume is mounted as read/write (right-click on its icon > properties/informations)