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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.

Della
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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.

Olorin
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Sourav Mishra
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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.

Diego
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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.)

v2r
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user285150
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