i have a macbook that wont boot. i want to copy the picture and music from the hd. i took the hd out and put it into my dell inspiron. i booted up with a live cd and im able to view the files. i can play the music. i just cant copy anything to my external hd. its telling me i dont have premissions. i tried to change that in the properties but it wont let me.
View 4 Repliesjust installed ubuntu couple of days back on my netbook. I am still a beginner, enjoying my adventure exploring ubuntu. I have another desktop which runs on XP. I am able to access XP shared folders through my netbook(linux). However, i wanted to copy files from XP infact folders using TERMINAL in my netbook, not copy and paste using my mouse. Are there any commands for it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a 160GB harddrive which I installed a F12, would like to upgrade to a bigger drive, but I hate to have to re-install everything.
Recommend a good disk copy utility? The utility should be able to not only copy files, but boot sector and everything. So I just need to make a copy, change my BIOS to boot from the new drive and run everything as before.
Is there a method at the command line to copy files from one location to another and retain the source files group and user?I'm migrating some MySQL files from one machine to another.I want to back-up the original files in the directory presently. They have owner:group of mysql, some have owner:group root:mysql and so on. To copy them under cli or Nautilus everything changes to root for I execute sudo cp or gksudo nautilus and copy via gui.
Since it is MySQL data I could simply do a dump of the database and restore it on the other machine. But there's about 20 db's and I want to do this via a copy for it will be faster - at least that is what I think.
How can you create a script to move or copy files from a main directory into multiple directories below the main directory.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen i installed ubuntu. I made a seperate partition so that i could copy an ISO image onto it of an up-to-date version of ubuntu. I wanted to then boot the ISO up so i could install the version that way.I've already tried doing it through the update manager but it'll download, almost be done with installing and it freezes on me. so i figured this would be easier. However i do not know how to gain access to the other partition to copy the ISO image.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have many files and folders in my source folder. I want to copy some files and folders from that source folder to destination folder. What should be require to given with the "cp" command?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am upgrading a QNAP NAS - the unit only had 1 drive to begin with. I have taken this original drive out and hooked it to my ubuntu system and when I boot my machine ubuntu sees the volume that was the volume the qnap shared. and it sees MOST of the files. but when I go to copy stuff it gives errors stating things like 'can't copy data2.cab' - when I go the directory where it claims it can't copy data2.cab there is no data2.cab.
Thing is I am pretty sure there *IS* a data2.cab ... just that the rights or something are such that I cannot see / copy it. is there a simple command I can run on the *entire* drive that will set the ownership of ALL files so that I can see and move them? I just need to copy all these files over to the upgraded nas and then I can reformat this drive.
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04. I have successfully installed Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL. I cannot copy files or directories into /var/www.
how I can enable copying of files and directories into /var/www?
the problem is that when i try to copy two files with the name(say ajax.js and Ajax.js) to a pen drive/USB it shows the options for either Replace/Skip. with the above two options either one of the ajax.js files will be copied, but i need these two files. I have also used different USB's, but no difference...
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a folder that contains multiple files i want to copy.
file1_DK, file2_DK, file3_DK, file4_NO
If i wanted to copy files1-3_DK but exclude file4_NO how would i do that?
I'm trying to copy files to the /var/www folder on Ubuntu 10.04. But I think I don't hava the permission. How can I do this? Maybe I have to set the rights permissions.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I use ldd it prints the location of the depends.Is there a way to copy the depends listed to a location in a single command or streamline it? I don't want to copy each dependence once at a time.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhy can I not drag and drop files to the new volume in dolphin? I tried doing it as root and it basically told me the same thing, that I cannot write in this volume...
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhile copying big folders in ubuntu using cp command,it takes a long time to copy in which no status comes on the console while copying.Is there any way to see the status of copying big file while the system is copying the files?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a Emerson MP3 player its a real cheap piece of garbage but I got it for free so whatever. I want to use it for audio books. when I plug it in and try to copy files to it it says I dont have permission its read only access. Trying to change the permissions does not work no matter what I try. I ended up finding out it is formatted as a msdos partition, which from what I read at another web site may be fat16. Dont know for sure about that though, just know it says msdos partition type. how I can change permissions to this so I can put my audio files on it?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have the following problemI want to copy files to a usb at random?My_mp3_400GB to my_usb_32GBjijiji is enough?But I have little idea how to do it on command, I want to copy files to a usb at random?cp My_mp3_400GB/ /my_usb_32GB????
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy computer doesn't like to copy files over 4 gigs to a flash drive. It will copy for about 12 minutes, and then when it's almost done, it's says "File to large." Is there some sort of limitation in the software that can be adjusted for this.
View 8 Replies View RelatedNow I have learned creating partition in linux (ubuntu), well that's an achievement for a newbie.
The next thing that I want to know is, how can I copy the contents of a partition to another partition. Like if I want to backup its content to a new partition that Im going to create.
How can I set my log files to copy themselves to a different location every, say, two weeks? Thanks in advance.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWell my drive has errors where i can't mount it using a GUI but it will mount and let me see my files using shell or w/e it is that i'm using while in recovery mode. I have manage to change my directory to the one that has ALL of the files that i want and need to copy. I was wondering whats the easest way to copy ALL of the files which are like 20 GB onto my 500 GB external HDD? and How will i know everything is done copying?
View 2 Replies View Relatedmy USB has become read only and i cant copy any files onto it...
View 3 Replies View RelatedHow to copy the files from Video CD's. from /media/new/mpegav/avseq01.dat , it's in .dat file format. How to convert it to video format. well ! i can watch the movie directly in Movie player or VLC, but not able to copy or convert it to other file format in-order to copy it to the hard disk. any vcd ripper/converter available which grabs or converts the file avseq01.dat (which is 600mb) into .avi,mpeg or xvd,divx...
View 1 Replies View RelatedIm gona install some ubuntu PCs, but the question is for dont update the N computers via web, what I need to copy from the first PC to the others for launch a program in the other N-1 PCs and have updated all (without run download on the N-1 PCs).
View 1 Replies View RelatedI deleted files from my camera (SDHC via USB) which I now want to copy back but I don't know how.
The camera is mounted in ~/.gvfs and the target folder is owned by my user with read/execute permissions. Couldn't change the folders permission.
I tried to mount the camera using 'gksu nautilus', but the camera didn't show up in the side panel. Unfortunately I don't know how to mount the camera from the command line, so I'm stuck.
PS: the only available card reader doesn't recognize SDHC cards, so that's not an option. And no, I won't boot Windows for that task.
i have a folder with 250 subfolders and each one of them has (at least) one image in it (along with other stuff)how can i 1)copy all the images from those subfolders and paste them into one folder together (other than by hand, obviously)?2)optional : copy only the images of a certain size and above?
View 2 Replies View Relatedi was trying to copy some files over my hdd using wget.this was the format of the command the catch is that there is a local website that is installed into directory heirarchy and i would like to use wget to make the html files link to each other in one directory level.the command didn't work inspite of trying different forms, so what's the mistake in this command or is there another way?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy Freenas server is currently off line for the moment pending the arrival of some thermo paste and I need to get some files off one of the drives. The drive is formatted in the UFS file system.I am using a usb to sata converter to hook the drive up to my laptop which is running 10.04.I am then able to browse the files by going to my /mnt folder. The problem is I cannot copy any of the files. I get a permission error. I have tried chmod 777 command to change the permission but I get an error about it being read-only. I tried running nautilus as root to copy the files but I still get a permission error. Using nautilus as root to change the permission or alter any of the read/write options fails because the drive is read only.
From what I understand I can only mount the drive as read only because its UFS and I can't change the permissions because its read only. Sounds a bit like an endless loop lol.Running Freesbie (freebsd live cd) didn't do me any good as it didn't even detect my hard drive and I don't want to learn a new OS just to transfer my files.ny advice would be appreciated. I really don't want to wait until my thermo paste comes and I will be on the road for the next couple of weeks so I won't even be able to get it setup. I need these files now.
My father in law had a problem with his Ubuntu system. After quite some playing around, we discovered that an update had damaged or removed the graphics driver and the system was stuck in non graphics mode. This thread refers: [URL] Rather than spend much more time trying to figure out how to re-install a graphics driver without a graphical user interface, I decided to cut my losses and re-install Ubuntu. Before I did this though, I had some files to recover. So I burned a Live CD and booted from that.
But my problem is that I can't copy all the files from the home directory of the hard drive. I get a permissions error when I try to copy or view the files. I'm assuming that, as the system does not see I'm the original user, that it won't let me access the files. This must be a fairly common problem, does anyone know how I can recover all the files? I just want to use the live CD to provide a working OS to allow me to copy and paste the files onto an external HD. The Live CD is actually the Lubuntu variant, I wanted a real lightweight OS to use on a live CD. I assumed that wouldn't make a difference. Oh, and of course, if there is a real simple solution to my original problem of a broken graphics card driver, I'd be interested in that too.
im using ubuntu 10.04 sometimes i find more useful to use the terminal to copy or move folders or files to other directories (more important when they need admin permission)
today i tried to copy ALL files from a directory to another. and i realized that i dont know. i know that that "~ mv /ThisThing/ /ThisFolder/" "~ cp /ThisThing/ /ThisFolder/" but howould i be able to copy EVERYTHING from a folder into another. tis is diferent from copying the folder itself (which i also would like to know)i bet is a simple thing that i havent figured out!