"Cannot chmod target file"

[Wojtek Pilorz]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Jason Skomorowski wrote:

> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 22:29:31 -0600
> From: Jason Skomorowski <jason at wrong.button.com>
> To: mc at gnome.org
> Subject: "Cannot chmod target file" 
> 
> I like Midnight Commander.  Except yesterday I was trying to copy some files
> to a FAT partition with it.  It didn't work very well.  It complained that it
> could not chmod the target file.  It complained in such a way for *ALL* the
This is because it tried to copy permissions information to a filesystem
(fat) which does not support them. When you copy files to FAT partition
you should uncheck "preserve Attributes" box in Copy dialog.

> few thousand files I was working with.  So I ceased using it and went to get
> whatever filemanager comes with Gnome.  But it turned out to be a Gnome
> Midnight Commander which has the same problem.  
> 
> Just a heads up in case anyone is inexplicably bored enough to add some option
> like "ignore this error for the rest of this command" but shorter.  Or in case
> there is such an option and I'm just very bad at finding it. 
> 
> Thanks for the otherwise very handy file manager,
> 
> 	Jason Skomorowski
> 
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Hope this help,

Wojtek