I've seen those switches on the full size sd cards, but I just looked at 
a micro sd card I took out of my tablet.  There's no switch.  Am I 
missing something?

On 10/15/2013 05:34 PM, Alan Dayley wrote:
> There is a small slider switch on the side of the card. One position 
> makes the card read only. It must have been moved from the other 
> setting. Pull out the card and try again after sliding the switch to 
> the read/write position.
>
> Or something else is wrong. ;-)
>
> Alan
>
> On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, Dennis McClellan wrote:
>
>     Today I bought an 8 gig microSD. When I tried to put some music on
>     it, I got a READ ONLY message.
>     I opened up a terminal and typed 'sudo chmod 755 microsd' and got
>     another READ ONLY message.
>     Then I tried 'sudo chown' and recieved the same READ ONLY message.
>     any ideas??
>     --
>     Dennis McClellan
>     Mint 15 Cinnamon desktop
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