how to unlock my files

[shogunmidas]

i am moving my files from some data dvd's and when i put them on my desktop they are all locked and i have to change the permissions for each individual file. is there any way where i can set it up to automatically allow me read and write privileges to all new files?

[taurus]

You can change all of them, assuming they are all in the same directory, with chmod from a terminal. When you copy files over from the DVD, they keep their original permissions so you need to change them to whatever you want once they are on your $HOME.

[shogunmidas]

thank you kind sir. that respons was pretty damn fast!

but im brand new to anything linux... what is chmod and how do i use it?

[taurus]

man chmod
Where did you move those data files? Did you copy them to your ~/Desktop?

ls -la ~/Desktop