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Q: How to regain permissions for internal storage drive?

I have installed my original Macbook pro's hard drive in my optical bay, clean installed osx lion on a new SSD in the drive bay, but having trouble accessing and editing the files and folders on the old hard drive.

 

I've tried "repair permissions", I've tried unlocking the padlock in inspector and inserting my admin account into the permissions window with "read and write" privileges, but at the file level most of the files have "mixed permissions" so I can't edit them all simultaneously with cmd + opt + i, besides I'm also getting problems with Textedit (for example) saying that I can't edit a file despite having changed the permissions for the file in the inspector.

 

When I try "chflags -r nouchg" in Terminal it says "Permission Denied" at the end of every string.

 

Somebody suggested the following commands for a similar problem, but the second half contains elements I don't really understand (presumably for the first one I replace "/Volumes/GPAudio" with the path of the drive)?, so I thought better of giving it a bash (heh) on my system without figuring if it was appropriate for what I want to do or deadly poison

 

sudo chflags -R nouchg /Volumes/GPAudio


sudo find !$ -type d -exec chmod a+x {} \;

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), null

Posted on Jul 17, 2016 3:46 PM

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  • by MonOnoM,

    MonOnoM MonOnoM Jul 25, 2016 3:36 PM in response to Drew Reece
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    Jul 25, 2016 3:36 PM in response to Drew Reece

    Ah, I feel awful for mentioning this now, but I am noticing a concerning change in that my hard disk now seems to be spinning up and making noise, apparently in response to my interactions with firefox and other applications not stored on the [source] disk? Also, an application that I haven't yet installed on this [dest] disk is now accessible through an icon on the Dock? It also seems to open (with a sort of weird error message) as if it were already fully installed? The drive didn't usually spin up or make noise unless I was directly accessing files from it in Finder and then would usually spin down.

  • by Drew Reece,Solvedanswer

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Jul 25, 2016 5:23 PM in response to MonOnoM
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    Jul 25, 2016 5:23 PM in response to MonOnoM

    I don't know which OS you are booted from or which disk your home folder is stored on at present. Obviously if you read or write data from a disk it will spin up, unless it is a SSD.

     

    OS X will index all mounted disks, so your the other disk will show applications that are not installed on the running OS.

    Initially I assumed you would clear out the old applications, then you seemed to want to have both OS's working. It is an issue I overlooked, sorry.

     

    Firefox will store data in your home folder, which may be on the spinning disk?

     

    I think you need to reconsider what your actual aim is?

     

    If it is a problem you can go back to my original suggestion to use Migration Assistant to copy the home folder over to the SSD. Just remove the user account on the OS that you want to migrate onto (choosing to leave the home folder in place).

  • by MonOnoM,

    MonOnoM MonOnoM Jul 29, 2016 10:12 AM in response to Drew Reece
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    Jul 29, 2016 10:12 AM in response to Drew Reece

    That makes sense, I didn't realise Firefox used the home folder to function/store data, I had worried I'd created some unexpected symbiosis.

     

    Ah, I think I will clear a few of the old applications off the old disk, if only to avoid confusion. It doesn't seem to be affecting anything otherwise, like you say an unexpected hiccup.

     

    I wanted to spend a few days of general use to make sure everything was running smoothly and it appears to be so, if I have further issues I will start a new thread, but for now I will mark this as solved.

     

    Thanks very much for your help Mr. Reece!

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