New to maemo, N900 file copy help.
 

Only get my N900 yesterday, never used Maemo before, and not that advanced with Linux either.

I need to copy some files into the /user/home folder.

When you plug it into a PC as a mass storage device those folders are not shown

I can get to it from the xterminal.

What is the easy way for a newbie to copy files from a Windows PC to the /home/user on the N900?

Re: New to maemo, N900 file copy help.
 

did you choose "mass storage usb mode" in your N900?
if folders are not shown, they may have been made invisible, just go to advanced view settings in windows explorer and activate "show all data and folders".
Don't know the exact name of the checkbox, because I'm using a german windows.

Re: New to maemo, N900 file copy help.
 

The mass storage device mounted on a PC is /home/user/MyDocs, you can't get to /home/user (not /user/home btw) with your PC directly. Use the X Terminal if you really have to do it. Why do you need to do this anyway?

Re: New to maemo, N900 file copy help.
 

To put the Quake 3 pk3 files into the /home/user/base3q folder.

Re: New to maemo, N900 file copy help.
 

Copy the pak0.pk3 file to the root of your mass storage device, unplug the device, open the terminal and type (hit Enter after each line, yes the dot is important):

Edit: if you have more files, it would be better to just create a baseq3 folder with all of them in the mass storage device (~/MyDocs) and then move the whole folder to /home/user:

Re: New to maemo, N900 file copy help.
 

Cannot copy into the baseq3 folder as i do not have write rights.

I did an ls -l and its

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

how to edit permission to let me write, i've tried normal linux commands i get "Operation not permitted" with chmod.