The other day, I took an external HDD for 1 TB. All machines are GNU / Linux. Formatted external HDD in ext4 and prescribed rights

chown -R $USER:$USER /media/backup/

Faced a strange problem. When copying a folder from a home folder to an external HDD, an error appears:

"You can not process the folder" 88 ", because you do not have rights to read it."

What is the folder "88" xsDistr Elementary OS Maybe you should use a different file system?

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    But as it is - it is! The folder "88", apparently, was created by the root process, so the user was denied access! In fact, the appearance of such folders in / home / ... (well, in user folders) is very suspicious! Route files are usually found only in / root and in many common ones, but not in the user’s folder !!! It is worth paying attention to! It could appear there if you were doing something out of the rue in your hands. Most likely (well, if this is not rubbish virus), then there are certainly some configs. In any case, it can be demolished!

      In your home directory (home folder from which you copy) there is a directory " 88 "

      find -type d /home/user | grep 88 | xargs ls -l it find -type d /home/user | grep 88 | xargs ls -l find -type d /home/user | grep 88 | xargs ls -l

      And you will see his rights, one hundred guldon that you do not have rights to read it.

      Fix just chown +r /home/user/path/to/88

        chown is not a mode of access to files, but belonging to users and groups. To change the access mode, use chmod (eg chmod + r). Better yet, read about the subtleties of mounting devices, and if you need automounting, then especially about fstab.