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RaceJunkie

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I have a external drive I just connected to my Mac. If I look at the Drive info it reads I have read/write permissions. But when I explore the drive I have at least two folders that have a lock on them with no write permissions.

How do I go about changing this? I tried I tried to un check the locked box for that folder but when I click it nothing happens.
 
RaceJunkie said:
I have a external drive I just connected to my Mac. If I look at the Drive info it reads I have read/write permissions. But when I explore the drive I have at least two folders that have a lock on them with no write permissions.

How do I go about changing this? I tried I tried to un check the locked box for that folder but when I click it nothing happens.
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I would LOVE to have answer to this, the locked files are very frustrating and the instructions on Apple's website do NOT work to delete these files.
 
RaceJunkie said:
I have a external drive I just connected to my Mac. If I look at the Drive info it reads I have read/write permissions. But when I explore the drive I have at least two folders that have a lock on them with no write permissions.

How do I go about changing this? I tried I tried to un check the locked box for that folder but when I click it nothing happens.
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Did you try clicking apply to all enclosed items?
 
Devoira said:
At the bottom of the Get Info menu, Under Ownership and Permissions, there is a button "apply to enclosed items"... try that once you have unlocked and done your read and write permissions.....
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Non existent on mine. When i click the check it does not disappear. I just seen that mine is still Fat32 as well so that's probably got allot to do with it.
 
RaceJunkie said:
Non existent on mine. When i click the check it does not disappear. I just seen that mine is still Fat32 as well so that's probably got allot to do with it.
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Did you click the arrow for Details to show the submenu?

And I am afraid I do not understand what Fat32 is or what "it" is that does not disappear...
 
This is my drives menu attached.
 

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RaceJunkie said:
This is my drives menu attached.
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it looks like it is a DOS drive, not a MAC drive and maybe that has something to do with it?

And maybe if you unclick "locked" on the folder....



Let me know if it works cause .....Otherwise... stumped....

D.
 
I had the same thing happen to me when transferring files over from Windows. I just dragged the My Pictures folder from My Documents and OS X was unable to do anything beyond copying the contents.

I deleted the folders on a Windows machine.
 
Eidorian said:
I had the same thing happen to me when transferring files over from Windows. I just dragged the My Pictures folder from My Documents and OS X was unable to do anything beyond copying the contents.

I deleted the folders on a Windows machine.
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I'm to the point where I am just going to move them to the mac and then reformat and move back. It's what I had to do with my other drives, just this has more info to move.


And maybe if you unclick "locked" on the folder....
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I can not un check the box.
 
I can not un check the box.[/QUOTE]

That could be a main contributing factor then... but I do not know how to deal with that...
 
Are you all using Leopard?

If so, then this is one of the major flaws. POSIX + ACLs = messed up permissions.
 
I fixed it, just moved the files to my local hd then formated external HD and moved em back.. Problem solved.. Took all of 20 mins
 
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