lock symbol on folders when copied from dvd

[timedragon]

Hi; when I copy a file from a dvd to my desktop or home folder in Elyssa ; it is locked and shows the lock symbol. This never happened to me with Daryna. Is there someway to prevent this from happeining. The only way I can delete the files after is through the terminal
thanks

[MagnusB]

You can use chown in a terminal to change owner of the file. It could be because of ownership when burning the file, or just how the DVD is mounted. I would just use chown to changer the owner of the file after copying it:

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sudo chown newowner /path/to/file.extension

[timedragon]

Thanks, but why would a dvd have different ownership? In windows when you load files from a DVD or cd there is no ownership assigned to it and it didnt do this with Daryna

[MagnusB]

It depends on how it is mounted, but if you only get some files I am not so sure if it is a mount issue...

[Lantesh]

K3B has a (somewhat buried) setting in the Burn dialog box to keep file permissions (backup).

That sounds great in theory, until you try to use the backup disk in another computer. I'd rather have the permissions stripped out. It's simple enough to restore them after copying the files back to my hard drive.