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can't a anything to my flash drive

Asked by Neil

 Hi all
Having a problem adding anything to my flash drive, I think it is something to do the permissions,
If I try to add anything I get the message below

Error opening file '/media/NEIL'S FD/mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.6': Read-only file system

I have right click on the drive and opened permissions but it says permissions could not be determined
I can use it to get stuff off it, but not add which is a real pain.
could I please get some help, i am guessing that I have to change the permissions to read and write somehow but don't know how to.
Thank
Regards Neil

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

oh! mb_ubuntu_optimizer is a little app that i wrote to quick optimize my and friend Ubuntu installations...

now mb_ubuntu_optimizer is at release 0.9 please download and use it:

http://www.elart.it/torrents/mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9.torrent please save mb_ubuntu_optimizer on the hard-disk, then open a terminal from Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

chmod 700 mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9

./mb_ubuntu_optimizer without parameters auto optimize only firefox

Please run "./mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9 all" more than one time... you will get less tips when you apply the suggestions coming from it.

mb_ubuntu_optimizer will give you only suggestion to optimize and clean your system

To get help ./mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9 help

My italian reference page: http://www.elart.it/ubuntu/mb_ubuntu_optimizer/

If you are in trouble please ask...

Hope this helps

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said : 		#2

HI
Sorry but I don't understand what you are saying.
Will this fix my problem? I down laoded the program, it is sitting on my desk top, I put the command
chmod 700 mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9
In to terminal but I go this report
chmod: cannot access `mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9': No such file or directory

How do I install it, and run it please, please forgive me as I am still tiring to learn to use the terminal.
I am Slowly getting the hang of Ubuntu but as I said terminal is a bit hard to learn, could you please give me all the steps to install it and run it.
It is on my desk top.
Regards Neil

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

I think the downloaded file was saved into your Desktop directory so you must change the working dir then type the:
"chmod" command and then run the ./mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9

To find a file there is the "find" terminal command so please use it now... open a terminal and type:

find $HOME | grep -i mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9

you will get the path of the file.

Then to change directory you must type:

cd directory_where_is_the_file_mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9

chmod 700 mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9

./mb_ubuntu_optimizer-0.9

will get the result

If you want to get help for the terminal commands we have used here... please use the "man" you can type:

man find
man cd
man chmod

Hope this helps

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said : 		#4

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.