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The contents on my memory card become read only. I cant edit or delete them.

Asked by Tania

The contents on my memory card become read only. I cant edit or delete them. When I try to change the permissions it wont let me and when I try to access the Help to see how I can fix it it says there was an error and wont open the Help folder.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: LinuxMint 6
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine LinuxMint package

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Tania (wandtdenmark) said : 		#1
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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delvalle26 (bassaf) said : 		#3

Try

gksudo nautilus

That will execute nautilus with privileges.

Navigate to /media/

Right click on whatever the memorycard directory is, and you should be able to set the permissions no problem. Make it readable/writable for your user.

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