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  • 01/13/2016 at 22:58 #113947
    johnsmith
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    Hello, I hope this hasn’t been answered before as I was not able to find it.

    I have a problem where after I copied some folders in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc then rebooted Emulationstation will not start because it doesn’t have permission to access the new folders. I’d like to be able to get to command line but after it fails even when I hit a button it won’t return me to bash prompt :(

    Basically I need a way to get to the commandline to chown -R pi on those folders but I’m not sure how if I can’t bypass emulation station.

    Using Raspberry Pi 2 and RetroPie 3.3.1-rpi2

    01/13/2016 at 23:05 #113949
    rdhanded2
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    You can’t use filezilla or a similar app to access and delete the files? Or putty to get to command line?

    01/13/2016 at 23:18 #113951
    johnsmith
    Participant

    Haven’t tired it yet; is ssh enabled by default?

    I wanted to avoid networking it as it’s in my kid’s playhouse and the wifi won’t reach lol

    I’ll probably have to do that though :)

    01/13/2016 at 23:30 #113953
    InsecureSpike
    Participant

    plug the card into yer pc/mac navigate to the desired folders and delete, then put it back in yer pi

    01/13/2016 at 23:54 #113954
    johnsmith
    Participant

    [quote=113953]plug the card into yer pc/mac navigate to the desired folders and delete, then put it back in yer pi

    [/quote]

    I think I’ll just bring it inside and try tto do a chown via ssh. I think I would hbe the same issue with file ownership if I just copy paste from the pc.

    Unless of course there is some keyboard command to drop to the shell during boot.

    01/14/2016 at 00:02 #113955
    InsecureSpike
    Participant

    ah, just thought you wanted to delete folder/files

    01/14/2016 at 14:20 #113982
    johnsmith
    Participant

    It’s working well now, just had to use putty and chown -R pi * in the /pc directory for anyone who has the same issue.

    01/14/2016 at 14:57 #113983
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    FYI there’s an app called JUICESSH you can log into your pi through your phone and enter commands there , I highly recommend it

    01/14/2016 at 18:33 #114006
    rdhanded2
    Participant

    Still needs to be networked though which was his issue.

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