It's far too easy to break things beyond repair. Anyway, this is disabled by default so you'd have to do a whole lot more to get to that point. Two methods there are undoubtedly more but here are the two main ways for most users :. This will open up a file browser window running as root.
Copy your files across but be careful, you can nuke the system like this. If you ever want to fire off multiple commands as root without prepending them all with sudo you can run sudo -i or sudo su and you'll get a root terminal. But again, be careful what you do.
You need root access. You can launch nautilus with root access with gksu nautilus or can issue commands with sudo before the command to move or copy. I would not play around with user groups if I were you, as this can mess things up and spoil built in security features. You can also install Ubuntu tweak and then go to manage scripts. There you will find a script called Browse as root. It will ad a new entry to the context menu wich will alow you browse the selected folder as root. You just right click from nautilus This will prompt a password dialog box.
Enter your sudo password and it will open nautilus with root privilege. Double click the new launcher on your desktop. Note that anything you want to copy and paste must be done in this browser, you cannot simply drag onto your user desktop space, so if you need to open to browsers just double click the new launcher twice.
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