Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm really struggling to access
certain folders. I'm assuming this is something to do with the
filesystem. Currently, I'm unable to copy folders into the
.config folder.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
share|improve this question add comment  3 Answers  Ran into
this last night. If you have permissions to access the folder
(chmod, chown) but still can't access the folder, make sure the
x bit is set for the folder. It's not intuitive, but you have to
have execute permissions on the directory itself.  share|improve
this answer add comment  Permissions can be changed in the file
manager (Nautilus) by right-clicking, clicking on "Properties"
then clicking on the "Permissions" tab.  If the directory is
owned by "root" or "nobody", permissions may be locked. If you
have to override this, try running the file manager (Nautilus)
with superuser rights. To do this, open a Terminal then type in
sudo nautilus. From there, you can navigate to those now
unlocked folders and change