New & happy switcher needs the help of the collective minds of the Macrumors massive!
Was trying to lock out a guest account I set up from an internal HD partition when an "unexpected error; could not complete command" (paraphrased, can't remember the exact message after the ensuing freakout) message came up. Then stupidly un-ticked 'Ignore ownership on this volume', closed the Show Info window and rebooted...now all of my accounts do not show the partition anywhere.
Tried sudo chown -R yourName:admin /Volumes/nameOfDrive as recommended in https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/154101/ ...it seemed to perform the command but still could not access/view the partition.
Tried to do a sudo chmod -R u+rwx * (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/154952/)but could not get into the directory to do the command, "Permission denied". Under ls -Fla it does list the partition as:
d---rwxr-x 23 admin staff 884 Oct 31 03:54 sm hd
...so I assume the ownership/permissions are messed up as per the latter-referenced forum thread.
Disk Utility still lists the partition but with the drive icon replaced by a paper(?) icon and no information(e.g. number of folders/files) on the partition...the 'repair disk permissions' button is also greyed out. I can still see files & folders in Spotlight but unable to access anything. Am running 10.4.3 ..
Thanking you in advance for any help given to sort the problem...Apple Support won't be open till Monday 🙁
shazz
Was trying to lock out a guest account I set up from an internal HD partition when an "unexpected error; could not complete command" (paraphrased, can't remember the exact message after the ensuing freakout) message came up. Then stupidly un-ticked 'Ignore ownership on this volume', closed the Show Info window and rebooted...now all of my accounts do not show the partition anywhere.
Tried sudo chown -R yourName:admin /Volumes/nameOfDrive as recommended in https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/154101/ ...it seemed to perform the command but still could not access/view the partition.
Tried to do a sudo chmod -R u+rwx * (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/154952/)but could not get into the directory to do the command, "Permission denied". Under ls -Fla it does list the partition as:
d---rwxr-x 23 admin staff 884 Oct 31 03:54 sm hd
...so I assume the ownership/permissions are messed up as per the latter-referenced forum thread.
Disk Utility still lists the partition but with the drive icon replaced by a paper(?) icon and no information(e.g. number of folders/files) on the partition...the 'repair disk permissions' button is also greyed out. I can still see files & folders in Spotlight but unable to access anything. Am running 10.4.3 ..
Thanking you in advance for any help given to sort the problem...Apple Support won't be open till Monday 🙁
shazz
