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From: William Witt 
Subject: Re: Permission on OGG File
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Josiah Jenkins wrote:

> On a Win XP computer, I converted some of my
> mp3 (music) files to OGG format and burned
> them to a CD.
> 
> In the Ubuntu machine, they play alright from
> the CD but, even as root (gksudo) I cannot
> copy them onto the HD.
> 
> Checking them at Properties>Permissions :
> File owner : root
> File group : root
> 
> With Owner / Group / Others / Special flags
> greyed out and at the bottom of the tab :
> 
> You are not the owner,
> so you can't change these permissions
> 
> Can they be changed ?
> 
> If not, how can you import OGG files
> from another source without hitting
> this problem ?
> 
> -- jjj

from a terminal:

sudo cp /media/cdrom/*.ogg /home/username/Desktop/
sudo chown username:usergroup /home/username/Desktop/*.ogg

Where username is your user name, usually the user group is just the user
name repeated (william:william for me). Of course the path to the mounted
CD-Rom drive may be different for you.

Will  
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