well... the pendrive was for backups. I just reformated it with gparted.. Hopefully that will fix it. Let;s see!.... . . . yep.... that fixed it! sorry I didn't think of reformating it before I posted that question. But that brings up thequestion..... what If I needed the data on the drive? How would I recover it?
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Stu <wien33@cox.net> wrote:
Hi Mike,
I have run into similar situations and have had some luck
recovering locked-out flashdrive files using a live distro like
Puppy, (Macpup 525 was the last version I used). I've tried to
access these files using the file browser as root, (sudo nautilus in
Mint) but for some reason the root user is not generally allowed to
change file permissions on USB drives - a security thing I imagine.
I'm sure there's someone here who can tell you how to do it though.
Stu
On 05/05/2012 08:43 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
I got a flashdrive and I plug ot into a computer.
Nothing appears saying I've plugged new media in and what do I
want to do with it. So I open the /media and see my drive. SO I
click it and get the improper permissions to view directory
error. So I tried changing the permissions of the drive but it
said 'not today!' So IO plugged it into the other computer and I
get the question about what to do with the new media. So I click
on it and go into the directory and I caan see all the pdfs I
have on the drive but when I try to open a file that is editable
the computer says the file is in use and asks if I want to open a
copy or as read-only. I deleted the lock files so I don't know
what it is talking about. Any clue what is going on? What I did
before this happened is I moved a bunch of files to a larger pen
drive and deleted them from this drive.