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Ownership Enabled Question

Simple: I have two externals (WDs) I want to consodate....I erased one to have room for the backup file on the other....when I went to copy the backup file onto the newly erased external...I go the message "The backup can't b copied because the backup volume doesn't have ownership enabled." What do I do to enable the file? I simply want to copy the file...any help is greatly appreciated...the file I'm trying to copy has this under the blue file: Backups.backupdb...if this means anything...thanks again...

Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Mar 20, 2012 11:24 AM

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Posted on Mar 20, 2012 11:34 AM

Select that external in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, and uncheck the 'Ignore ownership' box at the bottom of the window.


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Aug 12, 2012 3:18 PM in response to Peter Reznikoff

I'm trying to do the same thing, but I can't find the 'Ignore Ownership' box anywhere. I'm running Mountain Lion now. I'm very good with comptuers and not blind so I feel like I should've been able to figure this out or at least find the box 🙂 . I clicked 'Get Info' on the external drive and I see the dropdown 'Sharing & Permissions,' and I tried enabling myself as the owner but that's not an option. It says I can read and write. Any ideas?

Sep 2, 2012 10:02 PM in response to Peter Reznikoff

MacBookPro: 10.7.4.


Kinda important as my Mac tells me that the TimeMachine disk is almost FUBARed .... I can "read" but not "write" to the disk. But I can't copy the files using Terminal; doing a manual copy attempt yielded this ownership error message.


My work-around : I enabled sharing and that seems to have helped for manual copy. Still can't use Terminal, though.



No "ownership" option for me, either with cmd-I or Finder->File->GetInfo.

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Permissions error using cp in Terminal:

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Oct 22, 2012 2:35 AM in response to Peter Reznikoff

I have the same problem. I am trying to copy from one ex hd to another. The first does not have the ownership box to check or uncheck but the second does (??). I bought the second with its sole reason being to back up the first so is quite annoying. Anyone have any ideas yet??? The first is partitioned = 1 for mac one for pc. Is that the problem??


Thanks


Dan

Oct 23, 2012 4:25 AM in response to Peter Reznikoff

The thing which caught me out is that this option is not available on a disk which has been used as a Time Machine volume.


However it's the destination disk which needs this option enabled, not the original backup. Therefore as long as you are copying to a non-time machine disk, it should be possible to untick the 'ignore ownership' box on the target volume and copy the backups over.


The ownership tracking is required because the backup files keep track of ownership and permissions so that they can be restored properly.


HTH


Alex

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