copying or opening a protected file?

[phantomjoker]

Hi

I've just attempted to recover a bunch of deleted files, and i have been left with protected file (which apparently i don't have permission to touch)

How do i either open these, or copy them to a external so i can transfer them to a windows computer?

thanks

[iaculallad]

Hi

I've just attempted to recover a bunch of deleted files, and i have been left with protected file (which apparently i don't have permission to touch)

How do i either open these, or copy them to a external so i can transfer them to a windows computer?

thanks

Using the terminal:


sudo cp -R /location_1/folder /location_2/folder
sudo cp /location_1/filename.ext /location_2/filename.ext

Or simply:


gksudo nautilus

and begin browsing for the files you want copied and save it to other locations.

[bryncoles]

or/ open a terminal and type the following:


chmod u+rw -R FILEPATHTOPROTECTEDFILES

that'll chsange the permissions (chmod) for the user (thats you - u) to give read and write access (rw) recursively (R) - to everything within the folder too.

you can get the file path easiest by just dragging and dropping the folder into the terminal once you have types 'chmod u+rw R ' (dont forget that space after the R)

*edit*

good call too late, added the dash above (for clarity)

[Too Late]

(dont forget that space after the R)
Space is not enough. ;-) It must have hyphen, too (or is it called dash?):
-R

[phantomjoker]

WOW, i even couldnt do that...


mckenzie@ubuntu:~$ chmod u+rw -R /home/mckenzie/e1
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/mckenzie/e1/recup_dir.1': Operation not permitted
chmod: cannot read directory `/home/mckenzie/e1/recup_dir.1': Permission denied
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/mckenzie/e1/recup_dir.2': Operation not permitted
chmod: cannot read directory `/home/mckenzie/e1/recup_dir.2': Permission denied
mckenzie@ubuntu:~$

[phantomjoker]

oops - i forgot sudo :S

[Bliepo32]

Then place sudo in fornt of it. So it becomes:



sudo chmod u+rw -R /home/mckenzie/e1

[phantomjoker]

No - still didn't work... It just went back to the begining terminal screen $...

but i still cant open the folders

[Bliepo32]

And you wanted to delete the folder?

[t0p]

No - still didn't work... It just went back to the begining terminal screen $...

but i still cant open the folders

Did you get an error message?

If you don't get an error message, it generally means the command succeeded.

[CypherHackz]

Open Terminal and go to the folder which has the protected folders. Then type this:


sudo chmod -R 777 *

This will CHMOD all files/folders to 777. And now you can open/edit/delete whatever you want with the unprotected folders.

-cypher.

[jerome1232]

meh, I think your just not the owner, run this last command it'll make you the owner (without giving every1's dog the abiltiy to modify the files

sudo chown $USER:$USER -R /home/mckenzie/e1

chown changes ownership
chmod changes permisions