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A few weeks ago I tried Linux Mint on my 10 years old laptop and it worked way better than Windows. So I decied to keep it. But I wanted to keep all my old files, so I hadn't format my hard disk. I only format the particion where windows was, and replaced it with linux. But now I can only read those files. I don't have the permission to detele them or make new folders. What can I do?

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Several different things may cause this

Some reasons I can think of just now:

  1. If the NTFS file system has errors, it will automatically be mounted as read-only to avoid corruption of data.
    • Check the file-system and fix errors.
  2. Some NTFS drivers on Linux provide read-only file-system access.
    • Check the software center for different packages providing NTFS support.
  3. Partition is mounted with root as both owner and access group.
    • Recursively change file ownership.

Changigng ownership recursively

Open a terminal in the respective directory, then issue the following command line

sudo chown -R 1000:1000 .

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