Should have described operating system. I’m using a mac with os x 10.11.4 (el Capitan). Any suggestions? The files were created with the Seagate drive connected directly to my laptop. Now I have the Seagate connected to the router so I can get at the files from both my laptop and my iMac.
Thanks, freder > On Apr 22, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
