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I believe this has been mentioned before on other websites, but I did not find it here. Basic idea is that you can get root permissions as easily as checking it off from the drop down menus, like "View>Hidden Files," but something more along the lines of "Tools>Administrator Mode." It would ask for a password and allow you to freely browse/edit as root. Root action could then be set to turn off as the window is closed or if unchecked.

Basic premise behind this, I have been struggling to save files to a shared partition on my drive; it is formatted as EXT3, my Kubuntu as EXT4, and Windows 7 as NTFS; resultantly, I keep my files on the shared EXT3, but cannot cut and paste files on this drive in KDE without going to the terminal. I shouldn't have issues simply saving a file to that drive so that I can open it in Windows if necessary (since Windows cannot read EXT4 as of yet).

Add "user" to your mount options in /etc/fstab

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/dev/sda8 /mnt/blah ext3 noauto,user,noatime 0 0

I'm fairly sure that we have been promised the ability to give a root password for certain tasks. IIRC it will be in 4.4.

There are also several servicemenues on kde-look.org that adds a "Root actions" submenu when you right-click on files/folders. Actions are commonly edit, move/rename, delete, change owner and so on.

If it's being implemented in 4.4 I have no complaints. Otherwise, I'd rather it work "out-of-the-box," which I remember it did when I was running Linux Mint... I guess this is why I don't have those root menu options anymore. Thanks!

As Alec said, you should fix the mount and directories permissions (fstab & chmod).

I recommend to format the shared partition as NTFS and use ntfs-3g to mount it.

Why NTFS?

NTFS so you can share it with Windows, unless you are using the ext2 driver for Windows.

Oh, yes, I am. Thanks.