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Can you help with permissions on an external drive?

Please help with disk permissions. My command I on the external drive shows (Me) as Read and Write, Second down is Fetching….. Read n Write, and everyone Read only. Format is Mac OS Extended but still says You can only read. I've tried unlocking, but can make no changes. Ignoring ownership does nothing as well. Verify and Repair come up on the upper icon in Disk Utility but not when I click on my custom named external. Ran the repair under the manufactures name in disk utility and got


Verifying and repairing partition map for “SAMSUNG HD500LJ Media”

Checking prerequisites

Checking the partition list

Checking for an EFI system partition

Checking the EFI system partition’s size

Checking the EFI system partition’s file system

Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces

Reviewing boot support loaders

Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions

Updating Windows boot.ini files as required

The partition map appears to be OK




Ran the verify for my named drive and got the following

Verifying volume “REvamped”

Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

Checking extents overflow file.

Unused node is not erased (node = 83)

Checking catalog file.

Invalid node structure

The volume REvamped could not be verified completely.

Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.

Can anyone please help me get this unlocked? !!

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 10:17 PM

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Oct 5, 2015 10:31 PM in response to saregare

Here is the result



Verify and Repair volume “REvamped”

Checking file systemChecking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

Checking extents overflow file.

Unused node is not erased (node = 83)

Checking catalog file.

Invalid node structure

The volume REvamped could not be verified completely.

Volume repair complete.Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.Error: Disk Utility can’t repair this disk. Back up as many of your files as possible, reformat the disk, and restore your backed-up files.

Can you help with permissions on an external drive?

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