Thanks bigfoot. I followed your steps, but I ran into resistance from the files of a backup I had made on my previous Ubuntu machine using rsync. The regular files/folders outside the backup folder were behaving well after the change of permissions. I had to go in as root and individually remove the...

I tried your steps, bigfoot. I used AjaXplorer to try to delete the directory. I was unsuccessful and got a message on the bottom of the window "the directory /recycle_bin is not writable. This might be a permissions problem". Please tell me how to rectify this.

Thanks for the reply.

I will try it tonight. So, from what you wrote, I have to assume that these steps should be done for every directory/folder. Is it possible to change the permissions for all the contents of a drive with just a few steps, instead of doing for each folder in the drive?

I installed a headless Amahi HDA using express CD on a blank drive. When the system was up, I attached three drives with files/photos already on them. When I try to write/delete to these 3 disks, I am told that I do not have permissions. However, I am able to write to folders I have created after th...