Assuming the username gameboy, and the directory called
files-from-osx,do this in a terminal:
sudo -i
enter your password
chown --recursive gameboy /home/gameboy/files-from-osx/
exit
chmod --recursive 755 /home/gameboy/files-from-osx/
HTH,
Dave
I'm not sure if it worked, because this is a sample of much of the output:
chown: changing ownership of `/media/320 Gigabyte/Mac Mini Home Folder
Backup/': Read-only file system
The files are on an external hard drive, connected by USB.
I also noticed that there is no option to delete files
If your name shows up in the output of
ls -la /media/320\ Gigabyte/Mac\ Mini\ Home\ Folder\ Backup/'
you own the files. I think the owner's and group's names are in the 4th
and 5th columns of the listing.
What is the output of
chmod --recursive 755 /media/320\ Gigabyte/Mac\ Mini\ Home\
It doesn't actually say my name, but here is the output.
Who owns 320 Gigabyte ?
ll /media/320 Gigabyte
Looks like this is a fairly common issue. If my web search-fu is strong, this
happens because of a problem with the file system.
The best solution would be to copy all you wish to save off the disk and then
reformat it. Or if you're a gambler, you could fsck it. :)
I'm not sure, it was formatted as HFS+ with Mac OS X 10.6.8.
If I try to copy it, it says Permission Denied, or something like that.
Oh, I'm not sure how to work with those formats in Trisquel. Whenever I
want to exchange files, using a USB drive, I format the file system as
FAT on the USB. When sneaker-netting files from one machine running
GNU/Linux to another, I suppose you can format the USB as ext3, ext4, or
xfs?
I'm running Trisquel on my Mac Mini as my primary machine. I have a Time
Machine backup, too, (uses version control) but I just copied my OS X home
folder to an external drive, then installed Trisquel.
Try nautilus as root.
Alt+F2 gksu nautilus type your password.
Or in Terminal:
sudo nautilus
your password
I just installed Trisquel, migrating from Mac OS X. I made a backup of my
home directory in OS X onto an external hard drive, but the permissions were
set for my old user in OS X, so I can't read the files in Trisquel. How would
I change the permissions in the whole directory tree?
sudo chown -R `whoami`:`whoami` /path/to/home/folder
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