Locked external hard drives after 10.5 reinstall

Hello m:

Please update your profile to reflect your current configuration.

What do you mean by +"lock icon?"+ Do you see that when you do a _get info_ on the drive/volume? If that is the case, click on the icon, enter your password, and then change whatever you wish.

Barry

Hello again:

I am thrashing around as I have never seen a lock symbol on a desktop icon.

Click on the external HD. Go to +"get info."+ Click on the lock - it should prompt you for your password.

If you have already done this, we will try something else.

Barry

run the following terminal commands

sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"partition name"

sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/"partition name"

Put the name of the affected partition 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 every affected partition.

markalan wrote:
VK,

Thanks. The access has been changed.
I have two questions
1 Do I apply the changes to the whole disk?

what do you mean? the commands affect only the top level of the volumes that were locked.

2 The Get info box shows three accounts changed to read write and three that are still not changed. The info box shows all accounts twice. can I delete the ones that were not changed?

sorry, I'm very confused by this. the info box should show unix permissions for the owner, the group and everyone. That's 3 entries in total. the first two should be read and write now. the last should be read only. just how many entries do you have in the info box? if you have more than 3 mentioned above it means that you've tinkered with permissions and added some users using ACLs. run the following command to get rid of all ACLs

sudo chmod -N /Volumes/"partition name"

Mark

This has happened to me twice now in the last month. Any ideas what would be causing it??