Changing Permissions for Mounted Drive

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Changing Permissions for Mounted Drive

I am trying to synch two external hard drives. Both mount, but the drive I want to back up to is allowing only read access. How do I change the permission for all mounted drives to read / write?

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PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Jul 3, 2008 2:20 PM

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joshz

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Jul 3, 2008 3:01 PM in response to Drew Taylor

What format is the external drive you want to back up to? (Find out by selecting it in Finder, and clicking File>Get Info - look for whatever is after "Format:")

Good luck!

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Drew Taylor Author

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Jul 7, 2008 10:43 AM in response to joshz

It was formatted as a Windows NT filesystem format because we have a couple of Windows machines that access the same drives. When I access the drive via the network, I can read / write, but when I mount the drive locally I am getting read only access. I had hoped that if there is a way to change permissions to read / write that would solve the issue.

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joshz

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Jul 7, 2008 10:56 AM in response to Drew Taylor

OS X can't natively write to NTFS file systems-install MacFUSE and ntfs-3g to be able to write to the drives.

Good luck!

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Sep 2, 2008 11:52 PM in response to joshz

i recently got a lacie external hard drive and set it up on a windows. i use windows mostly but work on macs with final cut. the lacie said read only when i tried to transfer files from a mac to windows. i want to be able to use both systems with the lacie.

so just dowloading the macfus and ntfs 3g onto the lacie hard drive should fix that? can i do it if i'm on a windows or do i need to do this through a mac or something? working on a pc, all i did was save the files onto the lacie hard drive.

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joshz

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Sep 4, 2008 6:11 PM in response to conchan827

Welcome to  Discussions!

You'll have to actually install them-start a new thread in the appropriate forum (like Finder and Dock) to ask how, as your issue isn't really related to the Original Poster's (OP's).

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