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I have a problem with my externals drives.

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benguilb

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I have a padlock now on my 2 external drives. I can not drag things to it , I can not unlock it from the get info window.

My 500 gig drive is getting full, can not change the content.

What is the problem.

Anyone can help.

Benoit
 
If this was sooo easy

I did many times ans it is going back to the locking state.

I did many many times.

Benoit
 
It shouldn't lock after being unlocked.

Under Sharing & Permissions for the drive, what access do you have? It should be read and write. If not, log in as a user that does, such as Administrator, root, or the user that created the drive.
 
If there is a lock, it's an HFS-formatted drive, and an Administrator or owner should be able to unlock the drive.

FAT/NTFS drives cannot be "unlocked" in MacOS. Permissions must be set in Windows for read/write access. It's not a Leopard thing.

For the OP, as cliché'd as it sounds, try repairing permissions.
 
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