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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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Do you get an error when you use chown/chmod?

You might wanna join the chat at this point and post the solution here later when you solved it.

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Do you get an error when you use chown/chmod?

No errors, no.

You might wanna join the chat at this point and post the solution here later when you solved it.

Sad, but I am on a conference call while doing this. I'm going to have to try again tonight when I can focus. I do appreciate the effort, bossman!

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su

Password: (enter your root password here.)

chown -R "your_non_root_username" /Path/to/Guest

ls -la /path/to/mac/drive/Users

Paste the results here (hide real username folder)