Gottfried <gottfr...@posteo.de>: > I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, > because it needs root rights.
It needs root rights because of wrong permissions set to the root of the external drive. $ sudo chmod 666 /mnt/drive # should allow you to effortlessly perform future transfers I also suggest to check ownerships of the existing folders - there is a chance they belong to root now.
