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Swift-wp

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Hi

This is irritating me. Whenever I copy to my NTFS drive, I get the following message: Could not change permissions for <filename>. I'm using Konqueror with Kubuntu 8.04. I had the same problem with 7.10. Anyone have a suggestion for me?
 
I am not sure what your problem is, actually. Can you not copy at all?
if so, do a sudo cp sourcefile destfile.
 
It sounds like the problem happens when copying the files to a NTFS volume. My guess is that it is copying the files but has a problem setting the permissions/ownership of the files once they're on the NTFS partition.
 
I had something like that too, once. Have you installed the ntfs drivers? Just search for ntfs under adept and you should find it.
 
No I can copy, but when I copy something to my NTFS drive Konqueror gives me that message. It's irritating the crap out of me.
 
icyrus said:
It sounds like the problem happens when copying the files to a NTFS volume. My guess is that it is copying the files but has a problem setting the permissions/ownership of the files once they're on the NTFS partition.
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Bingo! Although I set the option to suppress permission errors, it still gives the error.
 
froot said:
I had something like that too, once. Have you installed the ntfs drivers? Just search for ntfs under adept and you should find it.
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They are installed. Ubuntu supports NTFS natively since 7.10.
 
Swift-wp said:
They are installed. Ubuntu supports NTFS natively since 7.10.
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I am aware of that. Yet I still had problems with ntfs in Gutsy. When I upgraded to Hardy however I have not yet had a problem to speak of.
 
Is it possible for you to use the ntfs automatic reconfig tool to try and reconfig your partition for you? Probably best to save your current configs first if you do though.
 
try:

cp --no-preserve=all /source/file /destination/file

Not sure if that will work, but it is worth a try...
 
Kasyx said:
try:

cp --no-preserve=all /source/file /destination/file

Not sure if that will work, but it is worth a try...
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As I understand it the problem is the annoying warnings when doing a copy from konq though.

Edit: what does the man page for that mount type say about the possible mount options?
 
Thanks. Will give it a go, but it will still give me that error message when I use the GUI to copy. Won't it?
 
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