Burning .thunderbird to a cd/dvd changes r/w

[Jim]

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.

[Jim Cromie]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Scott Beamer<geekboy(a)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.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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

[Scott Beamer]

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

[Jim]

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]

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

[Scott Beamer]

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

[Konstantin Svist]

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.

[Frank Cox]

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.)

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