Drives Locked!

run the following terminal commands (copy and paste, please)

 sudo chflags 0 /volumes/*
 
 sudo chmod a+rx /volumes/*

you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal. this should unlock your drives.

The locked drive thing happened to me right in the middle of a critical, and I mean critical edit session.
A thousand thanks for the chmod info. It worked and I got through the sessions. Long live the Mac community.

are the commands the same from using terminal on the mac os install dvd?

I have the SAME problem : the "system" user has dissapeared and other users have "personnalised" priviledges whilst the Hard Disk is locked..

Should I replace the last "*" in each line by any volume name ???

Thanks a lot, it didn't worked so far for me

I started up with my Mac's install DVD. When I go to Terminal, it says

'-bash: sudo: command not found'

I started up with my Mac's install DVD

From there you are already running as root, with no need for "sudo."

Hi Wiremonkey,

Simply try (with guaranteed success) BatChmod by Renaud Boisjoly
(a frog eater like me),
or FileXaminer by (I don't remember,
it's said on BatChmod site).

These softwares solve ANY privileges and permissions issues,
and *even more*, but *be careful*.

They both are free, but you should give them $10,
as I did myself, when I solved my *Disks Locked* problem
(Have a look by searching "disks locked" in discussions.apple,
or search "Eww" or "Olivier Herrbach").

If you want something more expensive (is it reassuring ?),
MacPilot (Koingo), *TinkerTool System* (Marcel Brezinc),
iRepair, Cocktail and many other softwares
(I can tell you the names by searching)
have dedicated sections to solve these …
let’s say, ennoying authorizations issues.

There's absolutely *no need* to go into Terminal.

I hope having helped you ?

Best regards,

Vialatte

Excuse me, CMathis, for having called you WireMonkey !

It's because I just replied to him.

Good luck !

Vialatte

Good evening, Luc de Hemptinne,

I supposed your drives icons have a little lock, and that,
with Get Info, Privileges and Permissions are "Custom", isn’t it ?

Simply try (with guaranteed success) BatChmod by Renaud Boisjoly
(a frog eater like me),
or FileXaminer by (I don't remember,
it's said on BatChmod site).

These softwares solve ANY privileges and permissions issues,
and *even more*, but *be careful*.

They both are free, but you should give them $10,
as I did myself, when I solved my *Disks Locked* problem
(Have a look by searching "disks locked" in discussions.apple,
or search "Eww" or "Olivier Herrbach").

If you want something more expensive (is it reassuring ?),
MacPilot (Koingo), *TinkerTool System* (Marcel Brezinc),
iRepair, Cocktail and many other softwares
(I can tell you the names by searching)
have dedicated sections to solve these …
let’s say, ennoying authorizations issues.

There's absolutely *no need* to go into Terminal.

I hope having helped you ?

Best regards,

Vialatte

I'm locked out of my internal hard drive on my Pro Mac (running Snow Leopard). I downloaded FileXaminer to try and get back into it, but I get the following error: +Error getting information for /Volumes/Photos 750.+ (Photos 750 is the name of one of my drives). I am glad I waited to pay the $10, b/c either I'm doing something wrong, or FileXaminer won't work on my drive. Can you help?

Hah! Nevermind... FileXaminer wouldn't do anything. But BatChmod fixed everything. Yay! Thanks. 🙂

VK my drive is also locked up. can you walk me through. I opened terminal and pasted

sudo chflags 0 /volumes/*

sudo chmod a+rx /volumes/*

nothing happens

FYI, I just posted my solution to this problem on the following thread, last post (as of now anyway):

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2135793&tstart=0

Hope it helps.

Thank you, it's totally works