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I have email attachments to download but cannot do so because they are read only

Asked by Trevor Payne

I am using Ubuntu for the first time and have received emails with attachments but cannot save them to a folder because they are "read only". This is a bit like building a road and then putting gates and stop signs everywhere for the "safety" of the user!!!!

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Dmitry Mityugov (dmitry-mityugov) said : 		#1

What folders are you trying to save the message to?

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Trevor Payne (trevliza) said : 		#2

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for your help offer....I get your drift. I was trying to save to
a hard drive partitioned with NTFS from my former Win XP installation.
It tells me I do not have permission to move files from Ubuntu to these
drives. Any quick fix, please? I think I have tried the obvious (click
disk\properties\open with).

Thanks, Trevor

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 18:14 +0000, Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
> Your question #11488 on evolution in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+question/11488
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> Dmitry Mityugov requested for more information:
> What folders are you trying to save the message to?
>

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

You can install and use the ntfs-config package:
ntfs-config - Enable/disable write support for any NTFS devices
to install it from open a terminal session and type:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

after that look for it menu or type from termianl command line
gksudo ntfs-config
specify a mount point (or reuse previous) for the ntfs partition and check the write access.

HTH

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