Red circle, minus sign on folders--yet I have complete access! ???
My external hard drive's folders unexpectedly have the right-hand corner red circle with a minus sign on them. Strangely, though, I can open them, see the file list, and open particular files within them. I can even add new files to them--all without any message, block, etc. When I check the permissions on the folders, they are the same as on my MacBook Pro's internal hard drive!
What's going on?
If this matters at all, I had installed Snow Leopard on the external hard drive. Yesterday, I "cloned" my documents and a bunch of other folders to the drive using Carbon Copy Cloner (a great back up program, by the way).
As part of my trouble-shooting, I tried changing the permissions for the umbrella user folder and applied those to the enclosed items. When that didn't change the minus sign, I also did it, separately, for the desktop folder, adding administrator permission-- and that pesky red minus sign remained!
MacBook Pro (early fall 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
