In trying to change the folder icons on an external drive I've run into another problem: permissions. While I am able to make changes to permissions on the internal drive I cannot on two external drives. The permissions section of the Get Info states: "You have custom access".
How do I go about changing this? I cannot find any info on this phrase anywhere on Apple's site.
Mac mini, macOS 13.0
It means there is an Access Control List attached to the top level folder of the drive.
What is on the external drive?
The only reason I could imagine an external drive would have an ACL is if you shared it in Sharing System Preferences.
You can view the ACL in Terminal. Copy/paste in this command, hit return.
ls -le /Volumes
Look for the line with the name of your external drive.
Below that line you should see 0: followed by a string of text.
Copy/paste that into a reply, here.
Oh. ExFAT has no permissions. I don't think it can have an ACL. Basically, whatever it has for permissions is just garbage. You can't change them because there aren't any.
OK, Isee that I need to convert my SSD from ExFATto APFS, and while Disk Utilities would allow me to convert my Jounaled drives to APFS that option is greyed out when I select the ExFAT disk. I'm guessing to reformat it I will have to erase it entirely?
The drive just holds files. Would it have anything to do with the file system? It's ExFAT while my other drives are Journaled.
2E6FF5DF-DC20-4307-9042-50DBCAFA5E0D allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
So I need to erase and re-configure drive to set it to Journaled?
As I thought, that ACL was created for File Sharing.
I think I remember seeing some other posts about problems with custom icons on ExFAT and FAT32 with Ventura. I don't know if a solution was found.
I'm guessing to reformat it I will have to erase it entirely?
Yes.
Can't change permissions on external drive, Ventura