Hi,
I apologize in advance if this has already been figured out - I've put a few hours into this and tried many of the solutions found here and on the rest of the web with no success.
My current situation:
- MacBook got water damaged and is no longer able to be powered on
- Swapped out the SSD from the MB into my new ThinkPad (already had an Ubuntu partition on it)
- Have two years worth of backups on a 2 TB Seagate external drive (the entire thing is journaled / used for time machine only, I believe)
- Do not have permission to move/copy files off of the external drive
I have a lot of valuable things on my old drives, both the SSD in this computer and the external HD with my time machine backups. I want to back them up into the cloud so that I can erase this current SSD to give Ubuntu more than 30 gigs, something I can't do until I know for sure that my files are safe.
I've tried everything that I could find online including simple chmod'ing of the disk, running this script to copy from Time machine (https://gist.github.com/vjt/5183305), and almost anything else that has been suggested, to no avail. I simply don't have permission to copy them, even though the disk has "access" permissions for all users other than original. If I copy a directory using sudo -r cp, it simply creates a locked, 0 byte file at the destination with nothing in it / unable to open it.
If you have faced this problem before or have seen a solution, please reply and help me out. I apologize if some of the things I've said are incorrect, but I am new to Ubuntu (I love it!) and have not faced this problem before. I do not have access to OS X. Bonus points if I am able to change the permissions so that I can directly upload from the external drive to Google Drive / Mega without copying, since I only have 40 GB on this partition and have 300+ GB that I need to back up.
Any help is very much appreciated. Cheers :)
I apologize in advance if this has already been figured out - I've put a few hours into this and tried many of the solutions found here and on the rest of the web with no success.
My current situation:
- MacBook got water damaged and is no longer able to be powered on
- Swapped out the SSD from the MB into my new ThinkPad (already had an Ubuntu partition on it)
- Have two years worth of backups on a 2 TB Seagate external drive (the entire thing is journaled / used for time machine only, I believe)
- Do not have permission to move/copy files off of the external drive
I have a lot of valuable things on my old drives, both the SSD in this computer and the external HD with my time machine backups. I want to back them up into the cloud so that I can erase this current SSD to give Ubuntu more than 30 gigs, something I can't do until I know for sure that my files are safe.
I've tried everything that I could find online including simple chmod'ing of the disk, running this script to copy from Time machine (https://gist.github.com/vjt/5183305), and almost anything else that has been suggested, to no avail. I simply don't have permission to copy them, even though the disk has "access" permissions for all users other than original. If I copy a directory using sudo -r cp, it simply creates a locked, 0 byte file at the destination with nothing in it / unable to open it.
If you have faced this problem before or have seen a solution, please reply and help me out. I apologize if some of the things I've said are incorrect, but I am new to Ubuntu (I love it!) and have not faced this problem before. I do not have access to OS X. Bonus points if I am able to change the permissions so that I can directly upload from the external drive to Google Drive / Mega without copying, since I only have 40 GB on this partition and have 300+ GB that I need to back up.
Any help is very much appreciated. Cheers :)
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