I am trying to tidy up my migration from Jaunty to Fedora 11. The Fedora installation is on a brand new hard disk, and the Jaunty disk is in the Ultrabay adapter for my Thinkpad, all nicely mounted.
For some reason Nautilus refuses to let me drag and drop certain files, yet does allow others. For example, in my ~/Desktop/ folder on the Jaunty disk are three PDF files: App Ling Fall 08 Newsletter.pdf App Ling Spring 07 Newsletter.pdf App Ling Spring 09 Newsletter.pdf Nautilus shows the first and last of these three files with a big fat X on them, like they're owned by someone other than me, but the middle one is fine. Nautilus will let me drag and drop the middle one, but not the other two. I have no idea why - all the files in my old home folder should have the same ownership and permissions (the old Jaunty me). If Nautilus thinks the owner of the files on the Jaunty disk is different it should refuse to let me copy any of them, not just random ones. I could change the ownerships and permissions on the Jaunty disk, but I don't want to do that just in case I decide I want to put the disk back into the computer and boot to Jaunty. Instead I thought I would just copy the offending files as root, then chown them to the new Fedora me. That's where things are weird. The cp command does not even see the files that have the X on them. Using tab for the above three files displays only the middle one, as though the others don't exist. And I'm doing it as root. Man cp doesn't tell me anything useful. I also discovered that I cannot run Nautilus as root. The command #nautilus throws up a page of error messages and then quits. I could use some enlightenment and suggestions. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
