I have just upgraded to 14.4 ubuntu version. it boots fine, but the screen immediately freezes. I booted from live CD and navigated to my Documents and tried to copy them to an external hard drive but got error that, I haven't got permission to copy the directory. How can I gain access to finish this task before doing anything?
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Welcome to AU! Can you open/read the files you intend to copy? Can you create a new (empty) file in the destination directory? Please edit your question to improve it with additional info.– David FoersterOct 22, 2014 at 1:04
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Thanks David, Yeah I can do all of that, and select / copy, but when I come to paste to the destination, then I have got the error that, I don't have permission.– ibramOct 23, 2014 at 3:06
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I sometimes have inexplicable permission issues with Nautilus too – especially on file systems that aren't unixoid (NTFS or CIFS). In these situations I usually resort to the command line. To copy a whole directory tree recursively, you need to issue:
cp -R [SOURCE] [DESTINATION]
Alternatively you can try other file managers like Thunar or Dolphin .