Hey, I just got a Mac, and I am having a slight difficulty trying to figure something out.
I have an external Hard drive with all of my school stuff in it. I just finished writing a paper today, and when I went to save it in the folder it was locked. How do I unlock this folder?
hello sorry to disturb but i am having a few problems with the computer I have my imac g4 for like 4 to 5 years now and all of sudden my hd has packed like the icons on my desk top does not show and i cant get into applications and only safari works and it makes this humming sound what wrong with it and what couls i possibly do also i cant get to the hd because the icon does not show and i cant get into finder
I have spent hours searching for an easy solution to this problem and think I have found a decent, albeit time consuming one:
- Copy your whole external hard drive to your computer's internal hard drive (if space allows)
- Format your external hard drive in FAT 32
- Paste all the files back onto your newly formatted external drive
- Now open the locked folder, and you should be able to uncheck the locked permissions box
Note: I have not completely taken all these steps yet, I did some tests cutting and pasting locked files from the external HD onto the mac, at which point I could finally change the 'locked' permission. I could not do this when the file resided on the external drive. After I unlocked it, I dragged it back onto the external, and it remained unchanged. So this stands to reason that you could make permission changes on each file when you needed to. This is still a pain to have to manually uncheck each box, but I tried all kinds of suggestions from other threads and couldn't get anything to work, except the attrib -r command in windows, which isn't practical if you have any locked subfolders. I hadn't seen this approach addressed yet so I thought I might mention another alternative if you are stuck like me.
