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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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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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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....

R/W pins was the second thing I looked for. None I can find.