I accidentally set a external disk's permissions to No Access. I can see it in disk utility and it says its mounted and working but is no longer on my desk top. I've searched but haven't found anything that works for me.I can't see the disk to change the permissions back. How do I fix this?
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I accidentally set a disk's permissions to No Access
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Even if the drive had been set to No Access you should still be able to see it on your desktop, just wouldn't be able to open it up. Were you changing the permissions using the Finder or terminal?
In the finder.I set up a guest account for my niece and thought it would stop her from messing up my hard drive ( Funny ) I probably changed something else then also in the get info window. I've got my 300G iTunes folder and 100G
of live recordings I've made on it.
of live recordings I've made on it.
Well I'll start at basics and move my way up. If any of these steps work, stop before continuing to the next steps.
1) Go to the Finder preferences and make sure the checkbox is checked for external hard disks.
2) Open up the Terminal Application from the Application -> Utilities folder
3) type in the following command word for word and follow each line by hitting the return key
cd /Volumes
sudo chflags nohidden "name of your hard drive here, spaces and all, if any, case sensitive, and include the quotes"
^^^^you will be asked for your computer password after hitting enter above. The password field stays blank in terminal so don't be alarmed that you can't see yourself typing in the password field.
killall Finder
4) I'm actually going to stop there for now. Let me know if this works.
1) Go to the Finder preferences and make sure the checkbox is checked for external hard disks.
2) Open up the Terminal Application from the Application -> Utilities folder
3) type in the following command word for word and follow each line by hitting the return key
cd /Volumes
sudo chflags nohidden "name of your hard drive here, spaces and all, if any, case sensitive, and include the quotes"
^^^^you will be asked for your computer password after hitting enter above. The password field stays blank in terminal so don't be alarmed that you can't see yourself typing in the password field.
killall Finder
4) I'm actually going to stop there for now. Let me know if this works.
Well I guess the easier thing to start off with would have been to restart the machine. Unplug the drive and plug it back in.
Did the restart already. After those commands I got
Mac-mini:~ B$ cd /Volumes
Mac-mini:/Volumes B$ sudo chflags nohidden "miniStack 465"
Password:
chflags: invalid flag: nohidden
Mac-mini:/Volumes B$ killall Finder
Mac-mini:/Volumes B$
and that didn't do anything
Thanks for the help
Mac-mini:~ B$ cd /Volumes
Mac-mini:/Volumes B$ sudo chflags nohidden "miniStack 465"
Password:
chflags: invalid flag: nohidden
Mac-mini:/Volumes B$ killall Finder
Mac-mini:/Volumes B$
and that didn't do anything
Thanks for the help
For us who are learning this. What did this command do
The chmod command changes the permission of files/folders. The 1775 part sets the permissions so that the user and his group have read, write, and execute permissions (7), and everyone else only has read and execute permissions (5). The 1 is a sticky bit, but not sure it played a part here.
So those permissions were applied to the Volumes folder where all drives are mounted at e.g., CD/DVD drive, internal HD, external HDs, etc.