Any Way To Undo A Read-Only Volume

[agentjamesbond]

I had a flash drive volume on my Mac and then what bothered me most was the .trashes file that I wanted to clear.

I saw an article telling me to open Disk Utility » Erase » Erase Free Space.

I did it and now my flash drive is a read-only and I cannot edit the permissions.

any help on being able to undo the action?

 

[BlueRevolution]

sudo chmod 777 /Volumes/drivename

 

[agentjamesbond]

sudo chmod 777 /Volumes/drivename

So what exactly do I do with this. Do I enter this in TERMINAL and then do what?

 

[BlueRevolution]

Yes, in Terminal. After that's done, relaunch Finder using

sudo killall Finder

 

[agentjamesbond]

Somehow it doesn't work. I enter the name of the volume [flash drive name] and in TERMINAL, it says that it is a directory. When I enter sudo Killall Finder, it restarts, but the permissions are the same.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Are there any spaces in the drive name?

Could you run

ls -l /Volumes

and post the result? (Those are both lowercase Ls.)

 

[agentjamesbond]

I entered the code you gave me [with "/"[volume name] and it shows the contents of it. Is there a way to tie in both codes?

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

I entered the code you gave me [with "/"[volume name] and it shows the contents of it. Is there a way to tie in both codes?

no, just enter

ls -l /Volumes

don't insert your drive name

 

[agentjamesbond]

I did as you said and it lists the possible volumes in my desktop. [my HD, my flash drive, and some app one]

 

[BlueRevolution]

Yes, I know. I need to see the full results from that command.

 

[agentjamesbond]

This is what came out:

drwxrwxrwx 1 James staff 16384 Dec 31 1979 0011047
drwxr-xr-x 9 James staff 374 Jan 28 15:33 GoogleEarth-Mac-Plus
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Mar 1 11:09 Macintosh HD -> /


my name is James and 0011047 is my flash drive name. Google earth is an application.