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Drives Locked!

For no apparent reason, several of my drives and or partitions have become locked. They have a small padlock icon attached to them.

When I "Get Info" to change the permissions, all the permissions are set to "Custom" and I cannot change it.

Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Feb 8, 2010 10:52 PM

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Posted on Feb 8, 2010 10:52 PM

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.
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Drives Locked!

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