Overriding Mac file permissions in Linux

Hello all,

I'm trying to recover a some data from a LaCie EDMini drive because the caddie went down. There are application solutions out there including R-Studio and Data Recovery II but they are both ~$80 solutions and don't always recover the metadata meaning I'd be renaming hundreds and hundreds of files which isn't going to happen!

Anyway, I'm using a SATA to USB adapter and I loaded up an Ubuntu Live CD to look at the file system and presto it mounted all my files. Brilliant. Only problem is that I had this EDMini in a network with Windows and Mac machines and I've been able to recover all files that were created on Windows but the files that were created on OS X (all my files...) are locked. It tells me I don't have permission to access the files.

Whilst that boosts my confidence in OS X security I do need to bypass those permissions somehow and my knowledge of Linux is poor. I tried sudo cp commands but was getting nowhere. Then decided to create a username and password that was identical to my OS X username and password to see if that worked and it doesn't.

Is anyone familar with this situation or knows how to override OS X file permissions so I can copy the files onto another drive?

Help appreciated, thanks.

Simon

 

detz I could kiss you! chmod -R 777 has worked an absolute treat. No idea what the command actually means but it's just saved me a thousand files or more. Thanks for the tip!

Simon