I've got a friend's dead MacBook Pro taken apart to save files from the hard drive. I've got the drive out and connected with a USB/SATA adapter and I'm using Ubuntu. The files she needs are in the Users folder, for which I don't have "ownership." What do I need to do to gain access to the user folder and copy her files out? Some searching suggested using chown, but I'm not really sure what to do because the folders are read-only and it won't let me change any of that.

5/27/2010 7:43:38 PM

is the drive mounted read only, or is the directory read only?

And what happens if you try a sudo cp ?

5/27/2010 11:19:09 PM

it's probably mounted read-only because there isn't a freely available filesystem module for hfs+

my advice would also be to try to sudo cp the folder to somewhere else and then sudo chown -R

5/28/2010 1:59:17 AM

Thanks, I'll try it out when I get a chance and see what happens.

5/28/2010 5:17:08 PM

I got it to work. The drive was mounted as read-only. sudo cp to my local hard drive and sudo chown made the files accessible. Now all that's left is to burn them to a disc for her.

Thanks guys!

5/30/2010 6:31:22 PM

You da man!

5/30/2010 8:25:40 PM

Quote :

"it's probably mounted read-only because there isn't a freely available filesystem module for hfs+ my advice would also be to try to sudo cp the folder to somewhere else and then sudo chown -R "

Are you sure? because i vaguely recall Ubuntu being able to r/w from an OS X partition.

but... YOU'RE WELCOME BIGtampon

5/30/2010 10:25:06 PM