Howdy, The commands worked! Thanks a zillion. This was my first encounter with an issue like this specific one. I figured it was about 99% surely a simple permissions issue was the prob, but that other 1% was the terrifying feeling All my internal drive files and the archive external HD files were gone for good! I did have to do a 'repair disk' with Disk Utility before the externals became accessible though. Huge sigh of relief
Richard in Michigan Quite a Thankful Fellow, appropriately so for the season! On Nov 27, 5:22 pm, Bill & Bunny Kuhlman <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard, > > We had the same problem with the same symptoms and the same inability > to make the appropriate changes - four drives were affected. > > After a relatively lengthy search, we found this thread on the Apple forums: > <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1961253&start=0&tst...>. > > The third post, the one from V.K., is the one which worked for us. > > Make sure you do a copy and paste on the two Terminal commands he provides. > > Input the first command line, enter password, and then input the > second command line. > > All of our HDs (one internal, three external) were unlocked immediately. > > Hopefully this procedure will work for you, too. > > >Hello, > > I've encountered a weird issue. There are little paddlelocks on > >most of my drives. I think it's a permissions issue of some sort I've > >never encountered before. My boot partition on the internal drive is > >fine, but the other boot partition and the user data partition won't > >let me access them at all. Says I don't have enough access > >priviledges. The same issue with my 800gig raid external drive too. I > >can't access or modify the 'locked' drives with drive utility when > >booted from an install disk either. When I do a Get Info and look at > >the sharing and permissions section, all the listings there have a > >'custom' indicator in the popup menu. The custom indicator won't > >change to anything else using the popup menu either. This is very very > >weird. The 'ignore ownership' check box is marked in the get info > >window, but the orange paddlelock is also there, I had to click on it > >and enter my admin password to do the tasks I listed above. > > What the heck is going on? I'm locked out of all my software, data, > >data archives, software archives. I tried a reinstall (the boot drive > >is 'sacrificial' and the user folder is kept on the user partition. NO > >Help. Quite confused here. > > >Richard -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
