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blasetheodore

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 20, 2007
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Hi,

I have a second internal drive with screwed up permissions. This happened when I wiped OSX server off my primary drive, and replaced it with a fresh copy of 10.4. Basically I run into issues moving and deleting files and folders. I used "get info" to assign the owner and group of the drive, but the "apply to enclosed" was disabled.

I've tried the following to get it to work:

ls -l /Volumes
total 8
drwxr-xr-- 19 blase wheel 748 Jan 20 23:28 Files
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 22 08:25 Macintosh HD -> /

sudo chown -R blase:wheel /Volumes/Files
sudo chmod -R 754 /Volumes/Files/

Both throw hundreds of "Operation not permitted" errors.

I know there's a real simple solution to this. Anyone know how I can fix it?

Thanks,
blase
 
Err... why are you in the wheel group?

Just do a Get Info on the drive in the Finder and select the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox.
 
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