Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Jan 2021 at 20:30:22 (+0800), kaye n wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 kaye n wrote: > > > > > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can ed

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-30 22:00, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends! When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to the flash drive via the terminal, it

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
(I've replied publicly again, as I'm not the only person who may be able to advise you on this, and I don't see any reason for this to have been taken off-list. If your reply being direct instead of via the list was intentional, then I apologize.) On 2021-01-31 at 08:28, kaye n wrote: > On Sun, J

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-01-31 at 07:30, kaye n wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >>> Are the files marked read only (ro), or is the entire flash >>> drive mounted ro? > > The dbf files seem to be READ WRITE EXECUTE for OWNER, G

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread kaye n
On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 5:20 PM wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 > > kaye n wrote: > > > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > > > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flas

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-31 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:27:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 > kaye n wrote: > > > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I > > try to copy several dbf fil

Re: Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:00:31 +0800 kaye n wrote: > When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit > certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I > try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to > the flash drive via the termina

Flash Drive suddenly read only?

2021-01-30 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends! When I plug in my usb flash drive to my desktop computer, I can edit certain libreoffice calc files saved in that flash drive. But after I try to copy several dbf files from the desktop computer hard drive to the flash drive via the terminal, it says it's read only. When I open the