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   Jonathan N. Little to philo   
   Re: Almost done doing my last backup   
   27 May 24 20:04:45   
   
   From: lws4art@gmail.com   
      
   philo wrote:   
   > On 5/27/24 6:07 PM, Gordon wrote:   
   >> On 2024-05-27, philo  wrote:   
   >>> Now that I'm up and running again, I temporarily put my 1TB backup ssd   
   >>> into my machine in order to back up one last folder. The drive was   
   >>> pretty full so I first decided to delete a few hundred gigs of stuff I   
   >>> don't need. I'm using the "Caja" file manager and it will not allow me   
   >>> to delete anything unless I open the manager as root.   
   >>   
   >> What were the permissions  of the files you wished to delete?   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > That drive is packed away now but I checked another backup drive. I see   
   > quite few folders did not have "create and delete" access. They were   
   > "access" only.   
   >   
   > Next time I put that drive back in service I'll be sure to correct that   
   > and in the future pay better attention.   
   >   
      
      
   sudo chown --recursive YOUR_ID:YOUR_ID /PATH/TO/MOUNTED/VOLUME/*   
      
      
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