Symbols

tigermad · Nov 23, 2009, 06:10 PM

Hi All.

New to the forums and excuse the stupid question but can someone tell me what the pencil symbol with a line through it is which appears on my external hard drive panel on the desk top. I assume it has something to do with being a read only drive but how do i change that to read and write? thanks alot

Gregg2 · Nov 24, 2009, 09:45 AM

Not a stupid question. I'm learning along with you here. Maybe someone who's more certain will chime in after this gets bumped up. But, highlight the drive's icon, then hit Cmd-I for the Get Info window. Look at the Sharing and Permissions area. Can you change it to Read/Write there?

wrldwzrd89 · Nov 24, 2009, 09:56 AM

This could be a case of Finder being confused. If the Get Info fix suggested doesn't help, try relaunching the Finder from the Force Quit dialog. You can bring it up from the Apple menu.

mooblie · Nov 24, 2009, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by tigermad

......the pencil symbol with a line through it is which appears on my external hard drive panel on the desk top. I assume it has something to do with being a read only drive......

Is it an NTFS drive, from a Windows PC? - that will be read-only with "vanilla" OSX.

Nov 23, 2009, 06:10 PM	#1
tigermad macrumors newbie Join Date: Nov 2009	Symbols Hi All. New to the forums and excuse the stupid question but can someone tell me what the pencil symbol with a line through it is which appears on my external hard drive panel on the desk top. I assume it has something to do with being a read only drive but how do i change that to read and write? thanks alot

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wrldwzrd89 macrumors 601 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Solon, OH	This could be a case of Finder being confused. If the Get Info fix suggested doesn't help, try relaunching the Finder from the Force Quit dialog. You can bring it up from the Apple menu. __________________ iMac Intel, 1TB HDD upgrade, 10.6.2; iMac G5, 300GB HDD, 10.4.11/10.5.8; iPod touch, 3.1.3

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Nov 24, 2009, 09:45 AM	#2
Gregg2 macrumors 65816 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Milwaukee, WI	Not a stupid question. I'm learning along with you here. Maybe someone who's more certain will chime in after this gets bumped up. But, highlight the drive's icon, then hit Cmd-I for the Get Info window. Look at the Sharing and Permissions area. Can you change it to Read/Write there?