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How can I elevate nautilus privileges to move or copy a folder as root?

I want to have full rights in Ubuntu 11.10 so I don't have to use the terminal every time I want to copy and paste or edit a file that is owned by root. Is there a way to do this?

I changed my user role to Administrator and it does not appear to have changed anything.

Is there a way, like MS Windows to simply copy/paste or edit files folders with momentary privileges to perform the task without the requirement to do it through terminal?

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If all you want to do is to allow file manipulations as root, but avoiding the command line, then you can launch nautilus as root. Alt+F2 followed by gksudo nautilus will prompt you for a password, and then launch the file manager.

You could create a launcher for this (disclaimer: I haven't tried the methods on that page).

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