[PLUG] Nautilus sees files, but cp does not

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 06:04:45PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> A more interesting question is why a few of the files on the Jaunty disk are
> -rw-------, while most are -rw-r--r---. All the files in ~/ on the Jaunty disk
> were placed there by me, not operating as root. 

Read 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask 
to begin figuring this out. 


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