Hello,
I know permissions issues are common, though, I can’t seem to find the issue here. I wonder if anyone has any ideas?
I have an HFS+ drive full of files, which doesn’t appear to show any issues. And I created a new APFS Encrypted drive. I simply drag a folder across and after a few moments of preparing to copy a few thousand files, I get:
You may need to enter the name and password for an administrator on this computer to change the item named ‘folder’.
I am not sure if this message refers to the destination drive (as the item named 'folder' is about to exist on both drives)? It seems to refer to modifying the new and empty destination drive. Though, the issue is exactly the same if I reformat the destination drive. Why would Finder have an issue with modifying a new and empty drive?
I am logged in to the admin (and only) user account. And both drives are set to ‘ignore permissions on this drive’. The folder being copied has default user permissions, nothing unusual.
It feels like the issue may be with the particular files on this source drive, because I just copied a different HFS+ source drive to a new APFS Encrypted drive without any issues. Though, the message seems like it is referring to modifying the ghost (about to be created) folder on the the destination drive?
Any advice appreciated, thank you
I know permissions issues are common, though, I can’t seem to find the issue here. I wonder if anyone has any ideas?
I have an HFS+ drive full of files, which doesn’t appear to show any issues. And I created a new APFS Encrypted drive. I simply drag a folder across and after a few moments of preparing to copy a few thousand files, I get:
You may need to enter the name and password for an administrator on this computer to change the item named ‘folder’.
I am not sure if this message refers to the destination drive (as the item named 'folder' is about to exist on both drives)? It seems to refer to modifying the new and empty destination drive. Though, the issue is exactly the same if I reformat the destination drive. Why would Finder have an issue with modifying a new and empty drive?
I am logged in to the admin (and only) user account. And both drives are set to ‘ignore permissions on this drive’. The folder being copied has default user permissions, nothing unusual.
It feels like the issue may be with the particular files on this source drive, because I just copied a different HFS+ source drive to a new APFS Encrypted drive without any issues. Though, the message seems like it is referring to modifying the ghost (about to be created) folder on the the destination drive?
Any advice appreciated, thank you