no way to copy

[vinnywright]

lets get some more information ,,,,,,,

1-the external drive was purchased with NTFS file system on it (yes/no) ,,,,if no how did you format it and was it with Kubuntu or with windows .

2-you said ,,,,"thought I extended all its authorizations.",,,,,, exactly how did you go about doing that.

3-if you plug the drive in wile your up and running ,,,dose the device notifier pop up asking if you want to open in file manager ,,,,,,,,if yes ,,,,then can you do anything with it .

4- you say your trying to copy your 14.04 /home/you ,,,,,,,what version are you running now .

answer these questions and then open a konsole and with the drive plugged in copy/paste each of these into the konsole and hit enter then copy and paste the output hear in code tags.

sudo parted -l

and

findmnt

lets start their .

the problem is probably,,,,,,,,,the permissions thing ,,,although I thought mounting in Dolphin or thrugh the device notifyer would give you these ,,,,,,,,we ,,,,,probably ,,,,,need to create a folder/directory that you own on the drive .

O and please enplane how you got into the drive (got it mounted) far enough to even try to copy/paste or drag the folder in .

VINNY

[nicrnicr]

Thank you very much vinnywright for your answer :-)

1. the hdd was either bought already formatted in ntfs, or my father formatted it in ntfs with an apple, or I formatted it with windows or apple.

2. I gave all the authorizations to see and change the data in the three cases. You can see a picture http://imagik.fr/image/Z7l

3. Yes a pop up window always asks me if I want to see the hdd through delphine.

4. I have
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

george@george-desktop:~$ sudo parted -l
Modell: ATA WDC WD5000BPKT-7 (scsi)
Festplatte  /dev/sda:  500GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/4096B
Partitionstabelle: msdos

Nummer  Anfang  Ende    Größe   Typ       Dateisystem     Flags
1      32,3kB  41,1MB  41,1MB  primary   fat16           diag
2      41,9MB  828MB   786MB   primary   ntfs            boot
3      828MB   168GB   168GB   primary   ntfs
4      168GB   500GB   332GB   extended                  LBA
6      168GB   437GB   269GB   logical   ext4
7      437GB   446GB   8291MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)
5      446GB   500GB   54,3GB  logical   ntfs

george@george-desktop:~$ findmnt
TARGET                       SOURCE      FSTYPE      OPTIONS
/                            /dev/sda6   ext4        rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
├─/sys                       sysfs       sysfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup                       tmpfs       rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755
│ │ └─/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd systemd     cgroup      rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd
│ ├─/sys/fs/fuse/connections             fusectl     rw,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/debug                    debugfs     rw,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/security                 securityfs  rw,relatime
│ └─/sys/fs/pstore                       pstore      rw,relatime
├─/proc                      proc        proc        rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
├─/dev                       udev        devtmpfs    rw,relatime,size=4008120k,nr_inodes=1002030,mode=755
│ └─/dev/pts                 devpts      devpts      rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
├─/run                       tmpfs       tmpfs       rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=804724k,mode=755
│ ├─/run/lock                            tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k
│ ├─/run/shm                             tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime
│ └─/run/user                            tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755
└─/media/alfred/Volume       /dev/sdb1   fuseblk     rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096

At the end, I could copy all folders and files but one named "output" that I didn't created. I succeeded in copying one folder or file each time instead of all together (or the folder containing all of them).

I don't think that I ever mounted the hdd.

Thank you again vinnywright.

[nicrnicr]

Thank you very much vinnywright for your answer :-)

1. the hdd was either bought already formatted in ntfs, or my father formatted it in ntfs with an apple, or I formatted it with windows or apple.

2. I gave all the authorizations to see and change the data in the three cases. You can see a picture <a href="http://imagik.fr/image/Z7l"><img src="http://imagik.fr/images/2017/08/09/forum_print2.png" border="0"></a><br /<a href="http://imagik.fr"><small>imagik</small></a>

3. Yes a pop up window always asks me if I want to see the hdd through delphine.

4. I have
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

alfred@alfred-desktop:~$ sudo parted -l
Modell: ATA WDC WD5000BPKT-7 (scsi)
Festplatte  /dev/sda:  500GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/4096B
Partitionstabelle: msdos

Nummer  Anfang  Ende    Größe   Typ       Dateisystem     Flags
1      32,3kB  41,1MB  41,1MB  primary   fat16           diag
2      41,9MB  828MB   786MB   primary   ntfs            boot
3      828MB   168GB   168GB   primary   ntfs
4      168GB   500GB   332GB   extended                  LBA
6      168GB   437GB   269GB   logical   ext4
7      437GB   446GB   8291MB  logical   linux-swap(v1)
5      446GB   500GB   54,3GB  logical   ntfs

alfred@alfred-desktop:~$ findmnt
TARGET                       SOURCE      FSTYPE      OPTIONS
/                            /dev/sda6   ext4        rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered
├─/sys                       sysfs       sysfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup                       tmpfs       rw,relatime,size=4k,mode=755
│ │ └─/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd systemd     cgroup      rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,name=systemd
│ ├─/sys/fs/fuse/connections             fusectl     rw,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/debug                    debugfs     rw,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/security                 securityfs  rw,relatime
│ └─/sys/fs/pstore                       pstore      rw,relatime
├─/proc                      proc        proc        rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
├─/dev                       udev        devtmpfs    rw,relatime,size=4008120k,nr_inodes=1002030,mode=755
│ └─/dev/pts                 devpts      devpts      rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
├─/run                       tmpfs       tmpfs       rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=804724k,mode=755
│ ├─/run/lock                            tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k
│ ├─/run/shm                             tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime
│ └─/run/user                            tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=102400k,mode=755
└─/media/alfred/Volume       /dev/sdb1   fuseblk     rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096

At the end, I could copy all folders and files but one named "output" that I didn't created. I succeeded in copying on folder or file each time instead of all together or the folder containing all of them.

I don't think that I ever mounted the hdd.

"enplane how you got into the drive (got it mounted) far enough to even try to copy/paste or drag the folder in ." Do you mind "write how I got into the drive far enough to even try to copy/paste or drag the folder in"? As I put it, I could copy little files.

Thank you again vinnywright.

[vinnywright]

cool ,,,so you got what you needed copied over then ?

the only thing I can think of ,,,,off the top of my head real quick ,,is that their must have been some file or folder in your /home/you that was owned by root and not viewable to any one else,,,,,,which should not have been.

VINNY

[jlittle]

I don't understand this thread, but here's two points that may be relevant:

• 
  

  ...
  I don't think that I ever mounted the hdd.
  ...

  Dolphin usually automatically "user mounts" filesystems on removable media if you click on them. They get unmounted when you log out, or do the "safely remove" thing, which often has an "eject" icon. If you plug in one while logged in the notifier should invite you to "open in file manager" which does this.
• Copying folders to an NTFS volume does copy the data fine, but not the permissions, unless a mapping is set up between the linux and Windows user ids. For a home directory this won't matter much, unless it does; f. ex. if you've set up ssh logins to other systems the permissions have to be just right. A way to avoid this trouble is to use an archive tool like ark.

Regards, John Little

[nicrnicr]

Thank you vinnywright and jlittle for your attention. It's late I*will read them again tomorrow.
Yes I could copy what I wanted to copy :-)
Before I*wrote here my problem, I've been searching in the net and actually I only found people who could only copy little data in several times and not a big data in one move. I didn't thought that I'm concerned but that is indeed my case.