I believe the shell is BASH. It is on mine at any rate. Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 22, 2016, at 2:23 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2016-04-22 20:53 GMT+02:00 Eldon Fredericks <fre...@purdue.edu>: > >> Should have described operating system. I’m using a mac with os x 10.11.4 >> (el Capitan). Any suggestions? The files were created with the Seagate >> drive connected directly to my laptop. Now I have the Seagate connected to >> the router so I can get at the files from both my laptop and my iMac. > > Do you have the same problem from both your laptop and your iMac? > > And by the way, iMac has Bash, doesn't it? > > >> >> Thanks, >> freder >> >>>> On Apr 22, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> 2016-04-22 18:47 GMT+02:00 Eldon Fredericks <fre...@purdue.edu>: >>> >>>> I have a whole bunch of files, both Open Office Writer and Open Office >>>> Calc files created by me and stored on a Seagate drive connected to my >>>> wireless router. >>>> >>>> I can see those files and I can retrieve them but I cannot modify nor >> save >>>> them. >>>> >>>> Is there a way to modify read only files to allow editing and saving? >>> >>> Depends on why you can't modify them and what operating system you are >>> running. If those files belongs to a different user (root, for instance), >>> then you probably wouldn't be able to open them at all, unless you have >>> group read rights. If, for some reason, your files doesn't have any write >>> rights, the same problem will occur. This is easily fixed for all your >>> files with a one-liner in Bash, if you are on Linux or similar, using a >>> combination of find and chmod. For instance by looking for all files in a >>> certain directory (and sub directories) named (using regular expressions) >>> ”.*\.od[st]”, and change their permissions with chmod +w. >>> >>> And don't forget to do the same on your backup to AFTER you made sure >> your >>> one-liner actually works… >>> >>> >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Johnny Rosenberg >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help. >>>> >>>> freder >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
