File Locked and Unable to to Rename?

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File Locked and Unable to to Rename?

Hi,

I have been doing some work on a Uni Windows computer and copied the file I was working on to a USB. I have opened it on my mac only to find that it shows it has a small silver padlock on the file while open in the finder window. I have tried rename it and cannot but it seems to open just fine. In the "get info" window permission says "Read Only" but alongside the user names and the administrators user name it says "Read and Write." Can anyone help me and explain how I maybe able to unlock it as I need to rename this file?

Many Thanks

Matt

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 13' 2.3 GHz i5 4GB RAM Early 2011

Posted on May 15, 2013 2:19 PM

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Answer 1

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Linc Davis

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May 15, 2013 5:04 PM in response to MattyMiles

The USB drive is formatted as NTFS. It can be read, but not natively written, on a Mac. If you want to drive to be both readable and writable on both platforms, it should be formatted as FAT32. To do that, you have to back up and erase it.

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Answer 2

May 15, 2013 2:25 PM in response to MattyMiles

Do a Get Info on the USB stick. Click the padlock to authenticate. Verify you have Read and Write privileges - change if necessary. Then click the gear wheel at the bottom of the pane, and select Apply to eclosed items.

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