If any of this sounds contentious, by no means should it be taken so,
just being terse and clear to help focus.
On Dec 20, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
What is now on the internal 2T is all of the A partition but a
bunch of the folders have a red " - " symbol on them.
what is that?
That means you don't have permission to access those files.
... but I seem ot have no trouble accessing any of them I've tried...
More than likely the 'oddness' the external drive was exhibiting
contributed to this issue.
If this is just data it should be available to everyone.
DO a Get Info in the finder for the volumem, and in the Sharing and
permissions section you can shange the permissions. You should see
a gear menu like on mine and when you change the permissions,
select 'Apply to enclosed items'.
Tried this before and tried it just now on your mention.
the INFO shows that I seem to have read & wrote access.
I went ahead and told it to APPLY, it confirmed and I said OK
nothing changed for better or worse... still the red sign, still seem
to have access.
It's odd.
I'm still nervous about screwing things up by making a mistake in
TERMINAL but I'l give that a try next
thanks,
John Vengrouskie
Maybe, I don't have a 10.4 system at hand to test, but this is
where you should go first.
There's also a Terminal way of doing this that'll work guaranteed:
Open terminal, and type:
cd /Volumes
And hit return.
If you type
ls
you should see a list of directories that have the names of your
disks.
do:
sudo chmod -R a+rw ./Problem\ Volume\ Name
Substituting the problematic volume name.
the leading dot slash ./ is important, and you must precede any
spaces in the name with a backslash \
What this command does is make all the files in that directory
readable and writeable to all users; the -R means do this
recursively for all enclosed files and directories.
This should make the - signs go away in Finder.
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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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