Permission denied for FCPX Library

Thanks Luis Sequeira1!

I appreciate the step-by-step. I've unlocked padlock, however it appears I do not have access to the drive? My privilege should be Read & Write, as I have highlighted - however as you can see in the screen grab below, just under "Sharing & Permissions" it reads "You can only read". Furthermore, the option to "Ignore ownership on this volume" is non-existent...

I see in your screen grab it reads "You have custom access". Could this be the underlying issue as to why I have been denied permissions in FCPX? If so, how do I update my permissions to have the same access? (My apologies in advance if this should be basic knowledge I should already have!)

Thanks again!

Thanks again for the speedy reply.

I am unable to change the permission for "Staff" to "Read & write". Everything is 'greyed out'.

I appears to be formatted as "Windows NT File System (NTFS)". I assume this is the issue? If I reformat and "Erase", will it wipe the drive clean (including the FCPX library I am trying to access)?

Thanks! i will give this a try.

I have found the updated Seagate software, however I will try the method you are suggesting first. Looks like it will take a while to accomplish - The library is 1.6TB and I am moving it to a (slow) shared drive (which unfortunately is the only medium I have access to with enough space). ETA for this is 2 days!

Thanks for your help and I hope this works!! I will update in a couple days.

Thanks again for all your help. I have an unfortunate update. It has taken days to transfer library to a shared drive, then wiped my external drive. I had some formatting issues with the external seagate - Apparently cannot be formatted for a mac (tried a few times). I found new software to that allows me to read and write on the drive with the new OS. All seems fine and I have spent the last couple days moving the library back to the external drive (shared drive is VERY slow).

I came into my office this morning with an error when there were mere minutes left of copying over:

"The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Videos 2016.fcpbundle” can’t be read or written.

(Error code -36)"

I googled the error and could not find anything. I feel am so close to getting permission back with this library. Is buying a new external drive my only option left? Not ideal (8 TB not cheap!), but the cost of creating the videos that I have lost access to far outweighs the cost of a new drive...

Thanks fox_m!

I'm normally pretty savvy around a Mac - however not in this case. Do you recall thee step-by-step process to accomplish this?

Thanks!