Copy-Paste Not Working

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Using precise pangolin. I am trying to copy some folders from my portable hard drive to one of the partitions. The paste button is not working in the destination folder and whenever I am trying a drag-drop with my mouse, it says that I don't have permission to create there, albeit I have the root. Even the new folder button is not working. Help please. Dialogue box and Permission details attached.

You may want to have a look at these questions: http://askubuntu.com/questions/47538/how-to-make-read-only-file-system-writable, and e.g. http://askubuntu.com/questions/77655/how-do-i-enable-ntfs-write-support (and more) in case your partition is NTFS. — Takkat, Sep 29 '12 at 08:06

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 24 '19 at 06:57

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Open a terminal (you can use CtrlAltT) and type:

gksudo nautilus

A new Nautilus browsing window will appear. Use it to copy and paste the results.

edited Jan 24 '19 at 06:57

Olorin

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answered Sep 29 '12 at 07:05

Sourav Mishra

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sudo nautilus is a bad idea, gksu nautilus is best. – Tom Brossman Sep 29 '12 at 08:39
Hi, I thought gksu is for graphical applications and since nautilus is a file manager, we can open it with sudo. – Sourav Mishra Sep 29 '12 at 09:32
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Nautilus is a graphical application. It involves the use of X, and it displays quite a few icons. Do you mind if I change it to gksudo? – nanofarad Sep 30 '12 at 22:07
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I agree with @ObsessiveFOSS , 'gksudo' will be more appropriate. – Sourav Mishra Oct 01 '12 at 03:37
You can try restarting nautilus http://askubuntu.com/a/489574/271328 – Harsh Vakharia Jun 29 '14 at 12:52

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 29 '12 at 06:39

I think I get your problem. Lets assume your destination folder is /home/user/MOVIES

If you are using your root account (Not recommend it) do the follwing

 chmod 777 /home/user/MOVIES  (You give all the permissions to your folder)
 cp /media/HARDDISK/ /home/user/MOVIES -R (You are copying all the content of your harddisk to you MOVIES folder)  
 if you have a special folder just specify it /media/HARDDISK/SPECIALFOLDER -R means recursive, you are going to copy what is on that folder)

If you check your destination folder only has access permissions, you can't write on it.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 25 '14 at 14:43

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Each time I want to do this I have to Open a terminal and type gksudo nautilus to do the paste.

(I wonder myself if there any permanent option to do copy/paste.)

edited May 25 '14 at 14:43

v2r

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answered May 25 '14 at 14:11

user285150

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Copy-Paste Not Working

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