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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
