Hi, thanks for this hint. I can use caja /MATE desktop sudo caja and then I can enter the external harddrive with sudo rights and create directories etc. Kind regards Gottfried Am 12.04.23 um 16:59 schrieb guix.gnu.org-p@trilingual.eu: > > 12 Apr 2023 16:39:24 Gottfried : > >> Hi, >> >> I have constantly problems to copy something to my external harddrive, because it needs root rights. >> I can do it only in the commandline, which gives me a lot of trouble, e.g. when I want to copy all directories at once. >> I don’t know the command for it. >> >> In "nautilus" Gnome there is an extension "nautilus-admin" which allows users to use root rights in the GUI using nautilus. >> But this package "nautilus-admin" is not packed in guix. >> >> Could somebody pack it for Guix? >> I can’t do that. >> >> Kind regards >> >> Gottfried > Hi Gottfried, > as a workaround you could start nautilus as root from a terminal by typing "sudo nautilus". > > -- > Pascal --