Permission denied/Photorec

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Basher

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Master Geek

#79938 24-Mar-2011 09:29

I have been trying to use Photorec, to recover some images off my Digital Camera, without much success.

What i have managed to recover are a whole host of files(i had to cancel the process before all 70,000 files landed on my desktop) ; dir.15/f0845058.gif ,recup_dir.15/f0845036.txt,recup_dir.2/f0289280_MSLS31.DLL recup_dir.1/f0272496.png they all seem like temporary browser files.

The problem is i cant not now move or delete them as permission is denied.

I have only one log on and that is administrator.

Any help would be much appreciated.

muppet

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#451336 24-Mar-2011 09:34

Basher:

Probably need some more detail than that if you want a hand :)

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johnr

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#451337 24-Mar-2011 09:37

chmod 777 (filename) ???

Basher

85 posts

Master Geek

#451346 24-Mar-2011 10:10

chmod 777 "my file" comes up with cannot access file/ no such directory.

valtam

396 posts

Ultimate Geek

#451361 24-Mar-2011 10:39

chown

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Basher

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Master Geek

#451370 24-Mar-2011 10:58

Just tried the Chown command - Cannot access No such file or directory ;(

valtam

396 posts

Ultimate Geek

#451375 24-Mar-2011 11:06

Whats the full chown command you are putting in? Whats the directory structure?

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Basher

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Master Geek

#451381 24-Mar-2011 11:20

I have tried;
chown 777 /recup_dir.6
chown 777 /desktop/recup_dir.6
chown 777 recup_dir.6
chown 777 desktop/recup_dir.6

Have also just tried copy and pasting from shortcut.

recup_dir.6 is one of the folder names on the desktop holding all the unwanted files.

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valtam

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Ultimate Geek

#451384 24-Mar-2011 11:28

The chown command is used to change the owner of the directory, chmod is used to change permissions. You will need to read up on using those 2 commands in linux. I'm hesitant to give instructions here as it is your data and don't want to be responsible for any stuff ups :) It will also be a good learning exercise for you. Once you take ownership of the folders you can move, copy delete rename etc etc. http://ss64.com/bash/ is useful.

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Basher

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Master Geek

#451386 24-Mar-2011 11:30

cheers, will look into it;)

Basher

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Master Geek

#451550 24-Mar-2011 18:32

Well managed to a bit today, trying to resolve my problem.

Still cant understand why the chown sudo etc will not recognise the files i want to get rid of by changing the ownership of the files/directories.

All the information i have read points me to the same place and it never works, just wandering if i need to use root commands with SU to do it?

I have learnt a bit today. No luck so far.

valtam

396 posts

Ultimate Geek

#451552 24-Mar-2011 18:39

Try a gui like Gnome Commander if you're having trouble with the command line.

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Basher

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Master Geek

#451567 24-Mar-2011 19:34

Right, thanks for that i can see now that all the deleted files ive recovered are owned by ROOT, so ill need to find out what my password is for the SU command, i do not remember setting one though.

Ah well makes a bit more sense, will have to have another look at it tomorrow.

Thanks for all your help

Basher

85 posts

Master Geek

#451575 24-Mar-2011 19:48

Ah i see i do not need root command i should be able to do it with sudo.

Basher

85 posts

Master Geek

#451617 24-Mar-2011 22:45

Fixed it.

With code

sudo chown user:user /home/user/Desktop/file.

this gave me permission to do move and delete files, then deleted with gnome commander.

Learnt a lot along the way too.

Thanks for your help guys;)