When burning .thunderbird folder to a cd/dvd it changes the r/w priviledges in Mail folders to r only. and you say no way, well i'm sitting here looking at the mail folders on the dvd and all of them say 'read'
In the past I noticed if I move the .thunderbird folder onto a hard drive or flash drive I had no problems of putting the .thunderbird folder onto a new upgrade/install and it would work perfectly.
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:22:56 -0400 Jim wrote:
When burning .thunderbird folder to a cd/dvd it changes the r/w priviledges in Mail folders to r only. and you say no way, well i'm sitting here looking at the mail folders on the dvd and all of them say 'read'
tar the directory first. (That's what it's for.)
Jim wrote:
When burning .thunderbird folder to a cd/dvd it changes the r/w priviledges in Mail folders to r only. and you say no way, well i'm sitting here looking at the mail folders on the dvd and all of them say 'read'
In the past I noticed if I move the .thunderbird folder onto a hard drive or flash drive I had no problems of putting the .thunderbird folder onto a new upgrade/install and it would work perfectly.
If you're talking about the copy on the cd/dvd itself, it's not surprising in the least because that media is generally RO.
Or maybe the original become RO during the burning process? That would make sense, because the burning app may not handle the case when you modify the files you told it to burn. It could then burn half a file one version and half another... If that's what it does, and you killed the burning app halfway, the files may have stayed RO. If you didn't, just don't try to write to them until the burning is done.
Jim Wrote:
When burning .thunderbird folder to a cd/dvd it changes the r/w priviledges in Mail folders to r only. and you say no way, well i'm sitting here looking at the mail folders on the dvd and all of them say 'read'
In the past I noticed if I move the .thunderbird folder onto a hard drive or flash drive I had no problems of putting the .thunderbird folder onto a new upgrade/install and it would work perfectly.
I don't think I've ever burned a recordable DVD or CD with files that didn't all become read-only. I believe that's the nature of the beast.
Just change the folder (and enclosed file) permissions to writable after you copy it from the DVD. I do this all the time.
But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/ *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will maintain file permissions and ownership.
For example....
$ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/ Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD.
See "man tar" for more info.
Scott
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:22 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote: [...]
But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/ *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will maintain file permissions and ownership.
For example....
$ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/
Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD.
See "man tar" for more info.
Or use "cp -p ..." (preserve attributes).
poc
On 07/01/2009 10:32 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:22 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote: [...]
But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/ *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will maintain file permissions and ownership.
For example....
$ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/ Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD.
See "man tar" for more info.
Or use "cp -p ..." (preserve attributes).
poc
Boy I do wished I could remember all the shell commands, It's amazing how powerful the shell really is in Linux.
Patrick O'Callaghan Wrote:
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:22 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote: [...]
But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/ *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will maintain file permissions and ownership.
For example....
$ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/
Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD.
See "man tar" for more info.
Or use "cp -p ..." (preserve attributes).
But in this case, he's buring files to a DVD....
Scott
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 19:09 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan Wrote:
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:22 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote: [...]
But on general principles when backing up data from Linux (or *bsd/ *solaris/etc) you should tar the directory/directories first. This will maintain file permissions and ownership.
For example....
$ tar -cjf thunderbird.tar.bz2 .thunderbird/
Then burn thunderbird.tar.bz2 to your DVD.
See "man tar" for more info.
Or use "cp -p ..." (preserve attributes).
But in this case, he's buring files to a DVD....
True enough.
poc
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Scott Beamergeekboy@angrykeyboarder.com wrote:
Jim Wrote:
When burning .thunderbird folder to a cd/dvd it changes the r/w priviledges in Mail folders to r only. and you say no way, well i'm sitting here looking at the mail folders on the dvd and all of them say 'read'
In the past I noticed if I move the .thunderbird folder onto a hard drive or flash drive I had no problems of putting the .thunderbird folder onto a new upgrade/install and it would work perfectly.
I don't think I've ever burned a recordable DVD or CD with files that didn't all become read-only. I believe that's the nature of the beast.
fyi, from my dmesg..
UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount UDF-fs INFO UDF: Mounting volume 'Burn Folder', timestamp 2008/12/16 02:26 (1f10) SELinux: initialized (dev sr0, type udf), uses genfs_contexts
pay no attention to the name 'Burn Folder' - someone lacked imagination.