On 10/16/2011 04:22 PM, Jason Barnett wrote:
> 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).  

In Ubuntu it's Nautilus, but there's something disabled -- the error
message said something about having my administrator enable something
related to "net".

> 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.

This worked. Thanks. With this I am able to copy the files to my laptop.
I can restore the permissions to normal once they get over there.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens


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