Hi everyone, 

I have three separate accounts on my Mac; one is in French and is a standard 
account, one is the Adminand the other is my everyday standard account. Due to 
a bug in Finder, where if you have a FAT32 external drive, you are unable to 
copy directories to the drive from your Mac because of some corruption in one 
of the system files which appear on the Windows side if you open the drive up 
in "My Computer" etc. This is not an issue with copying or moving files etc so 
to speak, but an issue with Finder itself. 

Anyway... I have tried to copy some folders using Terminal, and because they 
are Home folders and because I am doing it from a standard account I need to 
use Sudo.  My standard accounts are not members of the sudoers file, which is 
fine, but even if i enter my Admin password (whilst using Terminal from my 
standard account), I am unable to do what i want. Is this standard UNIX 
behaviour? I can't remember. If I need to add my Admin account to the Sudoers 
file, how do I do this please? I assume I could copy these folders if I logged 
into the Admin account, but i don't really want to do this and i absolutely 
don't want to enable the Root User.

Thank you for any help and apologies for the long E-Mail.

TC
James

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