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I have installed ubuntu on my old computer, fresh install etc. etc. hope to use it as a central store for media, backups as well as use xbmc on it to play stuff on my TV.

Problem i am getting at the moment is that when i copy any files over onto the hard drives on the ubuntu machine from either the mac or PC they are locked, and the properties state there is no owner and i can't delete them. I have since managed to unlock their properties using nautilus but then when you copy anything new over it again is locked.

Is there a way of stopping these files being locked by default when they are copied over to the ubuntu machine? So i dont have to keep going back in and making them unlocked.

I am very new to ubuntu and not great with all things command line, so if there is a less command line fix for this it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance :)

id101
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Open a new terminal and type:

sudo nautilus

Then search and select the files you want to open, right-click and properties, then change the permissions :P

Seth
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