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Dreshden

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Jul 24, 2008
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I have a black Macbook which I got about a week or so ago and the past two days it has been acting up saying that I have no RAM. So I took it in to the Apple store to have a genius look at it. He ordered the parts that I need for the repairs. He also said that they might have to reformat the hard drive if it turns out that it is not hardware but a software related problem. I hadn't backed up anything from the laptop cause it was so new but I did have all of my music on there.

So I come home, I took out my hard drive and connected it to my desktop and tried to get in. I got on to my Ubuntu partition and connected my external hard drive. I go into my Mac hard drive and go to my users folder and look inside. I see that a couple of the folders have are locked and I have no idea how to unlock them to allow me to move them to my external hard drive.

Is there any possible way that I can get to those files through Ubuntu or would I have to be in OS X? Thanks in advance for any help :)
 
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