An easy way is to just launch the file browser using sudo which will give it root permissions. I use Kubuntu so I am not sure what the browser is in Ubuntu but for me I would use 'sudo dolphin' (dolphin being the KDE file browser). If you don't care about the permissions of the files, you could change the permissions of all the files using 'sudo chmod -R 0777 *' which would make all the files from the current folder down, world readable/writable. This is not good for security, but will get the job done.
Jason On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote: > My desktop machine croaked overnight. Fortunately I had already copied > most of my laptop which is now running Ubuntu 10.04. This afternoon I'm > using the Ubuntu install CD in try-out mode to look for and copy things > more stuff. It's been working fine for most files but I've run into some > that won't copy due to permissions problems. In the Gnome file browser > the icons for individual files in some of my directories have an X in > the upper right hand corner. If I right click on them and look at the > Permissions tab of the file's Properties I get the message: "You are not > the owner, so you cannot change these permissions." > > How do I become the owner using the CD based OS? Or is there some other > way I can copy these files? > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
