Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive--Solved

[DAB4970]

Today I tried to copy & paste my music files from a USB hard drive to an internal hard drive on my desktop. When I right clicked on the partition to paste a group of files, it wouldn't highlight the option to paste the files. Is this a permissions issue? I don't think it would be hardware. I'd just thought that permissions was a place to start.

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive

If the destination 'folder' is not within your users /home partition, and the location isn't 'owned' by you, then yes, it's a permissions issue.

Where are you trying to paste the files to?

Another possibility is that the destination you are wanting to paste to hasn't been mounted yet. Can you get into the destination folder directly with Dolphin?

[DAB4970]

Re: Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive

Dolphin does show the secondary HD (slave). It has one folder on it, "Lost and Found". I can't create a folder on the partition.
I formatted the HD as ext4. Does that create the permissions issue?

[skunk]

Re: Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive

sudo mkdir <whatever mount>/mystuff
sudo chown dab:dab <whatever mount>/mystuff

Obviously, replace dab:dab with your own userid and group

Then copy your files into <whatever mount>/mystuff

[DAB4970]

Re: Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive

Should "sdb1" be in there somewhere? Because it is physically mounted as the slave HD.

[skunk]

Re: Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive

see my edit as you were posting

[vinnywright]

Re: Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive

Should "sdb1" be in there somewhere? Because it is physically mounted as the slave HD.

you can also do this in the GUI if you can open dolphin as root (it has ben broken for some)

eneyway press alt>F2 and type

kdesudo dolphin

in the box.

go to your drive and add a folder(DIR) then rite click it.... click propertys.... click the permitions tab and change owner root , group root to owner you , group you .......ware "you" is your user name.

close the root dolphin ............open a normal dolphin and test

VINNY

[DAB4970]

Re: Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive

yes, thanks, that did it.

kdesudo dolphin

Selected partition, right-click in open white space, selected properties, then permissions, and in the "User" field replace "root" with my userid

[vinnywright]

Re: Can't paste music files onto slave (secondary) hard drive--Solved



skunk's advice was sound......but you nead to know a bit about the CLI to get it.

I like a GUI to if posable :P

VINNY