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Dandyman
Asked: 2012-06-04 00:50:12 +0800 CST

Nautilus doesn't allow me to access files

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I recently backed up the home partition of my hard drive, using an Ubuntu LiveCD and GParted.

Now every time I navigate to the partition a little padlock icon appears in the corner of the file/folder, and the only way to access the file is to use Nautilus as the superuser.

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2 Answers

    • Start nautilus as super-user
    • Right-click on said folder
    • In the pop-up menu select "Properties"
    • In the "Properties" dialogue select the tab called "Permissions"
    • In the "Permissions" tab make sure that the Owner of the folder is you and that you have read/write access
    • Than click "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files"

    Note: It also doesn't hurt to set the right Group here. You can do the same in the shell by typing:

    sudo chown -R username:group /path/to/folder  # substitute your username and group for
sudo chmod -R ug+rw /path/to/folder           # "-R" means recursive - it will be applied to subfolders and files therein

    Permissions Tab in Folder Properties

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  2. Access home folder as superuser via terminal and then change owner with chown

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