Need to change permissions on a DVD I burnt

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Need to change permissions on a DVD I burnt

I have a DVD of my own material - songs I've written that I burnt some years ago to a DVD. I went to put it back into my system so I could re-work something and I cannot copy anything off of this DVD. I looked at the read/write permissions and it says I only can read off of this disc. This is MY material - I'm a composer - I backed this up to make sure it was safe - now I cannot restore it. Any ideas on how to force my DVD to give me back my music?

2 x 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 8 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Posted on Feb 14, 2009 2:33 PM

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Király

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Feb 18, 2009 3:11 PM in response to rosindabow

You can edit out the file names if you want. But the important info we need is the ownership and permissions settings.

Paste the results into TextEdit, edit out any file names you don't want the world to see, and change any other info you don't want anybody to see. The bits we need the most are the bits that look something like this: -rwxr-xr-x username group

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Answer 2

Feb 18, 2009 3:31 PM in response to rosindabow

rosindabow wrote:
I tried every permutation I could even imagine - nothing. It might be the slashes. I tried copying the name directly from the CD itself and it showed up in Terminal as Classclown:sep2002:shoop:shtuck:simpleLife:Spin:start:sum41:surf
Not sure why it put colons in?

That's because OS X does translation on the fly between ':' for the Terminal and '/' for the GUI.

See if this will help (I assume you are in an admin account, and that your HD has enough space for the DVD content). I would advise you to copy and paste the following into the Terminal window, and then please check I haven't got your DVD name wrong. Then press return if it looks right.

sudo ditto /Volumes/Classclown:sep2002:shoop:shtuck:simpleLife:Spin:start:sum41:surf ~/Desktop/myDVD

That should copy everything into a folder "myDVD" (which it will create) on your Desktop.

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