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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. Oct 22, 2014 at 1:04
  • 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.
    – ibram
    Oct 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 Install Thunar or Dolphin Install Dolphin.

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