Can't Read Second Drive Since Last Update. (Solved)

[Stephen]

On 14-09-03 08:52 PM, Francis (Grizzly) Smit wrote:
> On 04/09/14 05:14, Stephen wrote:
>> I updated my Ubuntu 12.04 this morning.
>>
>> Then I tried to copy files from my main drive to the second drive in the
>> box.
>>
>> I got this error;
>> Error splicing file: Input/output error
>>
>> Then I couldn't even read from my second drive.
>>
>> I got suspicious because, it was just after an update, and I never had
>> any trouble with the drive before.
>>
>> I checked both drives a couple of days ago and they were functioning
>> fine. The second drive is formated NTFS, but I don't have windows on my
>> system, except in a virtual box.
>>
>> I restarted my system and then I could read from the second drive so 
>> I tried
>> gksudo nautilus.
>>
>> I could read the second drive so I tried to copy files from my main hard
>> drive and I got these messages in the terminal after I exited nautilus;
>>
>> Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
>> Shutting down nautilus-gdu extension
>> Error loading document: Error opening file: Permission denied
>> Error loading document: Error opening file: Permission denied
>> Error loading document: Error opening file: Permission denied
>>
>> ** (nautilus:2823): WARNING **: Could not inhibit power management:
>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name
>> "org.gnome.SessionManager" does not exist
>>
>> ** (nautilus:2823): WARNING **: Could not inhibit power management:
>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name
>> "org.gnome.SessionManager" does not exist
>>
>> ** (nautilus:2823): WARNING **: Could not inhibit power management:
>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name
>> "org.gnome.SessionManager" does not exist
>>
>> I restarted my system and am coping all the information from my second
>> drive to an External 1 terrabyte drive.
>>
>>
> My recommendation open a terminal and use "sudo -i" to become root 
> then try looking a5t the drive, it sounds like the owner is set to 
> something diff from your user try "ls -l <path to files>" or just "ls 
> -l <path to drive>" if the user and group are wrong try
> chown -R <your user>.<your group> <path to drive>
>
> hope that helps
>
>
>
Thank you Francis.

When I got the listing it said the stephen stephen then the file entry 
for that spot, but it still didn't work When I did the chown -R 
stephen.stephen then I could copy files to and from the drive.

I have complete control of the drive.

Thanks a lot;
Stephen