How Do I Copy Files to a USB Drive?

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Re: How Do I Copy Files to a USB Drive?

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I think that the easiest way would be to open a terminal and type : sudo chown -R "your user name" /"usually /media/sd*". (do not type the quotes) then type your password and you should be able to get accesses to the disk and copy/paste.

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