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Drives have LOCK icon, please help!

having major permission errors with my G5 Mac

Other than my boot drive, my other (2) drives are showing as being locked.

Yes account is administrator.
Disk Utility repair permissions is disabled.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks

Dual 2.5 GHz G5, Powerbook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.4), 60GB Video iPod

Posted on Aug 14, 2008 4:16 PM

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User profile for user: V.K.
V.K.
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Posted on Aug 14, 2008 4:22 PM

to unlock the other drives enter the following commands in terminal (just copy and paste please).

sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"drive-name"

sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/"drive-name"
\\
put the name of the locked drive instead of drive-name in the above. *keep the quotes*. you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see) after the first command. that's normal. repeat for the other drive.
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User profile for user: V.K.
V.K.
User level: Level 9
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Aug 14, 2008 4:22 PM in response to powermixx

to unlock the other drives enter the following commands in terminal (just copy and paste please).

sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"drive-name"

sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/"drive-name"
\\
put the name of the locked drive instead of drive-name in the above. *keep the quotes*. you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see) after the first command. that's normal. repeat for the other drive.
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Drives have LOCK icon, please help!

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