Slave Hard drive and graphic card

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Re: Slave Hard drive and graphic card

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open the the folder the drive is mounted in, then right click and choose properties.
select the permissions tab.
what are they set to??
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Re: Slave Hard drive and graphic card

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penguin73 wrote:Hi deadguy....I went to the permissions tab and everything is grayed out. Thank you for taking the time to help me out.
you can change them by using nautilus in root mode.

open a terminal and type:

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gksudo nautilus
you'll be prompted for your password, then nautilus will open with root privileges.
your selections on the permissions tab should then no longer be greyed out.
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