Hi, I'm new to macs and I can't find a solution to my problem anywhere -- I'd appreciate some help!
I have an external hard drive that up to now I've only used on windows (xp and vista). When I connected it to my mac (macbook pro with lion), I found it's automatically set to read-only. I want to change a folder name and can't do it! How do I fix this?
I'm fairly comfortable with command line so I tried following someone's suggestion to use Terminal. I used the sudo mv command, and was prompted for a password. I tried to type in the password I established in the Setup Assistant process but it didn't work: I mean, it didn't even let me type it in -- I typed but nothing appeared on the screen (no letters, no asterisks, nothing). I thought maybe it was just being super secure so after typing the password I pressed Return but all that happened was I received my command repeated back at me with the message "Read-only file system."
This hard drive isn't password protected or read-only on my other computer (windows), so I don't think it's the hard drive's fault -- I think it's the mac.
Any suggestions? (Please make your answer as spelled-out as possible -- I am a beginner and I don't mind if you underestimate me!!)
I have an external hard drive that up to now I've only used on windows (xp and vista). When I connected it to my mac (macbook pro with lion), I found it's automatically set to read-only. I want to change a folder name and can't do it! How do I fix this?
I'm fairly comfortable with command line so I tried following someone's suggestion to use Terminal. I used the sudo mv command, and was prompted for a password. I tried to type in the password I established in the Setup Assistant process but it didn't work: I mean, it didn't even let me type it in -- I typed but nothing appeared on the screen (no letters, no asterisks, nothing). I thought maybe it was just being super secure so after typing the password I pressed Return but all that happened was I received my command repeated back at me with the message "Read-only file system."
This hard drive isn't password protected or read-only on my other computer (windows), so I don't think it's the hard drive's fault -- I think it's the mac.
Any suggestions? (Please make your answer as spelled-out as possible -- I am a beginner and I don't mind if you underestimate me!!)
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