Aperture Permissions

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Aperture Permissions

I am using a Netgear NAS Ultra 4 Plus. With Firmware 4.2.15. Its a simple set up. The NAS is directly connected to my MacPro. I am using a reference catalog system with Aperture 3.1.1. The catalog is stored on a drive in the computer. The reference files are stored in the media share (AFP). I thought everything was working OK, but then I tried to empty the trash within Aperture. Thats when I found out I couldn't delete an image file from the Media share using aperture. I can go in and delete the file myself, but aperture just gives me an error message:

"Some referenced master files cannot be moved to the System Trash, and will remain in their current locations:• You don’t have access to the System Trash on the master files’ volume. Other master files will be moved to the System Trash as specified."

I'm able to copy to, and relocate from the share, but not delete a file.

Has anyone ran into this problem, and found a solution. I would like to keep my reference files on the NAS.

Mike

MacPro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 27, 2011 6:42 AM

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Frank Caggiano

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Jan 27, 2011 8:02 AM in response to Michael Irvin

Turns out this is a problem a lot of users have had with Aperture and other programs. Google for:

You don’t have access to the System Trash on the master files’ volume

No one had a great solution. One thing you can check, does the external drive show up in the Finder? And if it does can you do a *Get Info* on it? If so at the bottom of the info window is a check box telling the OS to ignore permissions on this volume. You could try checking that.

If that doesn't work google it for the workarounds others have come up with.

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Answer 2

Jan 27, 2011 8:58 AM in response to Frank Caggiano

For me the workaround has been to create an iSCSI target, then using disk utility to format it in HFS+. I can then use the target as if it were an internal drive with all the permissions working OK. An iSCSI target cannot be shared over the network, for me I guess thats not a big deal. Also it will not expand, and contract as needed like a network share. Is would be better if the problem was solved so that a workaround was not necessary, and the referenced images could be shared over the network.

I have looked at the permissions at the bottom of the get info window, all it shows is that "everyone" has no access, and I have custom access. There are no check boxes. For now I'll keep using the iSCSI, and hope that in the future the problem will be solved. I'm sure it has to to with the way MacOSX, or Aperture interacts with network permissions.

Mike

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network

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Aug 7, 2011 7:11 AM in response to Michael Irvin

I don't know if this applies to you, but I have my refenced files on an external (non-networked) drive and have the same problem. What I figured out is that there is one extra step. Go to the root of the drive with the referenced files and select "Get Info". At the bottom there should be a check in a box called "Ignore ownership of this volume". This may be good enough, but go ahead and click the gear icon at the bottom to "apply to enclosed items". Now this should set all the folders on the volume to ignore permissions. Now Aperture should be able to delete your referenced files from the external drive.

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Aug 15, 2011 3:50 AM in response to network

I have the same Issue, I have repaird permitions, applied permitions to enclosed items an played with the terminal

any other sugetions would be great

Maby I just have to learn not to take bad photo's

Nath

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network

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Aug 18, 2011 8:39 AM in response to Nath S Greco

That was my one trick. I'm sorry.

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Answer 6

Sep 6, 2011 8:13 AM in response to Nath S Greco

How annoying can this be?? I followed the instructions in THIS article to no avail. By the way, if you try this, you should just use the terminal instead of dragging folders like the author explains it in the article.

I had to add one extra step, (or maybe it's the only step I needed) which basically modified the permissions on the trash folder of my external FW drive.

1. Open Terminal

2. Change to drive directory (ie. cd /Volumes/FWDrive)

3. Change permissions on Trashes directory (ie. sudo chmod 777 .Trashes/)

Changing to the directory is safer to me than what is suggested in the article. It makes it harder for you to fat finger and delete the root of the drive, which would wipe out all of your files. Hope this helps.

Also, I used 777 because I didn't want to **** around with permissions. However, this opens read/write to the world. If you want to be more secure, you can do change the ownership first and then chmod to 644 or something.

If you're not familiar with chmod/chown, just do a quick search on them. They are common Linux/Unix commands.

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Answer 7

Apr 14, 2012 1:49 PM in response to Michael Irvin

the workaround is to select the trash content and to relocate the files to a local drive ... then you can empty the trash and have the files really moved to the finder trash

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Answer 8

Apr 15, 2012 4:02 PM in response to Michael Irvin

OS X itself doesn't support trashes for network volumes, only for local volumes. So this will cause problems with Aperture, as you're seeing. It's not an Aperture-specific problem.

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Answer 9

Nov 14, 2012 8:08 AM in response to Michael Irvin

I’m having exactly the same problem. Bump.

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