all files changed to read only

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:04 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 January 2018 at 16:56, C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > A good chance is the filesystem has been mounted read-only. This might
> > have happened due to an error in the filesystem (during mount).
>
> This is a likely cause.
>
> If you are reasonably sure that the drive is not _physically_ bad,
> then boot off a CD/DVD/USB-key and run ``fsck -f'' on the drive. This
> will probably fix any errors and then it will mount R/W again.
>
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I've been sampling my files and it still appears that the restriction is
confined to the  pcloud drive.  Will wait to see what develops-  I have
backups of my files fortunately so even if pcloud fails altogether I should
be ok.


garyk
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