2016-04-22 18:47 GMT+02:00 Eldon Fredericks <fre...@purdue.edu>: > I have a whole bunch of files, both Open Office Writer and Open Office > Calc files created by me and stored on a Seagate drive connected to my > wireless router. > > I can see those files and I can retrieve them but I cannot modify nor save > them. > > Is there a way to modify read only files to allow editing and saving? >
Depends on why you can't modify them and what operating system you are running. If those files belongs to a different user (root, for instance), then you probably wouldn't be able to open them at all, unless you have group read rights. If, for some reason, your files doesn't have any write rights, the same problem will occur. This is easily fixed for all your files with a one-liner in Bash, if you are on Linux or similar, using a combination of find and chmod. For instance by looking for all files in a certain directory (and sub directories) named (using regular expressions) ”.*\.od[st]”, and change their permissions with chmod +w. And don't forget to do the same on your backup to AFTER you made sure your one-liner actually works… Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg > > Thanks for any help. > > freder > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
