nautilus vs konq

[Mark]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:58 PM, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> I have a second disk in box1 that was essentially a backup disk from
> the previous Mandriva install, and from which I moved data to UB. It's
> time to do a backup, and before using a dedicated backup method, I
> thought I'd see what happens with a simple copy. Nautius sees the disk
> and offered to mount and open it - but it will not let me create a new
> folder to copy files into. All 'new folder' locations are grayed out
> in nautilus. I tried opening media/[long string] in konq, and konq was
> happy to create a folder and do the copy. Why are the 'new folder'
> locations all grayed out in Nautilus?
>
Ownership issues on the target drive?

> I have not previously run into the [long string] as a disk reference.
> Where does that [long string] come from?
>
Disk UUID perhaps.

HTH.

Mark