Help with folder permissions!

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Help with folder permissions!

I'm trying to add some files to a folder on a secondary hard drive installed in my Mac Pro.

If I get info on the hard drive itself, under the Sharing & Permissions area, I see something strange:

"You can only read"
Name: ddas (Me): Read & Write
(unknown): Read Only
everyone: Read Only
Ignore ownership on this volume: checked, but grayed out
Lock icon: locked, and grayed out

My account IS "ddas" and I'm logged in normally as "ddas". "ddas" is also an admin on this computer. So technically I should have read/write privileges, except it's telling me "You can only read" plus this entire area is grayed out so it won't even let me authenticate to force permissions.

What do I do??

See here for screenshot:
http://img231.imagevenue.com/loc369/th67302_Picture_1_122369lo.jpg

Mac Pro 8-core (2 x 2.8), Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on May 11, 2009 10:44 AM

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Francine Schwieder

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May 11, 2009 11:13 AM in response to David Das

You can't write to it because it is locked. Have you tried clicking on the little tiny padlock in the bottom right corner of the GetInfo window? Are you able to do that? If not you may need to use the Terminal to get things back to normal. See if this thread helps:

http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9180856

See if V.K.'s Terminal commands fix it.
Francine

Francine
Schwieder

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David Das Author

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May 11, 2009 2:39 PM in response to Francine Schwieder

I couldn't click on the lock icon. It's grayed out and will not allow me to click on it.

I tried those Terminal commands but it simply replies with

chmod: /Volumes/Projects1 : Read-only file system

or

chflags: /Volumes/Projects1 : Read-only file system

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Chris CA

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May 11, 2009 2:58 PM in response to David Das

Any chance this external is formatted NTFS? Macs cannot write to NTFS.

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David Das Author

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May 11, 2009 4:10 PM in response to Chris CA

It's not NTFS. But I did solve it.

Disk Utility tried to verify it and found problems it couldn't fix, and dismounted it from the desktop (and refused to remount it).

I ran DiskWarrior 4, which in 1 minute scanned it, rebuilt its directory, and remounted it. And at the same time, the permissions problem is fixed too.

Thank you DiskWarrior!

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