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Unable to rename files on external HD
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<blockquote data-quote="scathe" data-source="post: 1053395" data-attributes="member: 81672"><p>one more thing would be to check the owner of those files you are trying to rename. If you don't have administrator rights and the file is owned by somebody else, then even if you have write access to the disk, you still wouldn't be able to change existing files</p><p></p><p>this is across all unix systems.</p><p></p><p>to see the owner, type in terminal: (in the directory of your misbehaving files)</p><p>ls -l</p><p>the listing will show the file owner in one of the left columns</p><p></p><p>to change the owner use chown:</p><p>chown user_to_be_assigned filename</p><p>(for this you need to be an admin/root)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scathe, post: 1053395, member: 81672"] one more thing would be to check the owner of those files you are trying to rename. If you don't have administrator rights and the file is owned by somebody else, then even if you have write access to the disk, you still wouldn't be able to change existing files this is across all unix systems. to see the owner, type in terminal: (in the directory of your misbehaving files) ls -l the listing will show the file owner in one of the left columns to change the owner use chown: chown user_to_be_assigned filename (for this you need to be an admin/root) [/QUOTE]
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