Comment 8 for bug 389422

What a shame... this bug used to plague me all the time. In order to get around this gui bug it requires a lot of knowledge for a typical user to learn. The three most obivous assumptions of knowledge is that the user will:

1). Learn that Nautilus is the default file-browser in Ubuntu (as it's not clearly indicated much of anywhere except the "Help-> About" section)
2). Know how to use the CLI.
3). Learn that you can give nautilus root privileges by calling it with "sudo" in front on the CLI.

I remember this error always providing a brick wall for me when I was first learning Ubuntu. I hope it does eventually get onto someone's to-do list for a fix.