On 06/10/10 06:49PDT, Walter Sheluk wrote:
Both of my External FireWire Drives were powered on and their icon's
were on the desktop ( iMac/3.06GHz/Snow Leopard ) when i decided for
some unknown reason to eject ( Command + I ) both drives to do a apple
software update/installation.
Upon restarting after the update was completed both external FireWired
drives came back on the desktop BUT both had a small lock in the lower
left hand corner of the drives icons.
Those two drives can not be opened because the message is that i don't
have permission to see the contents.
Command+I shows that i have "Custom access". When I tried to change
those settings they revert to "Custom access". I ticked on the "Ignore
ownership on this volume" but still locked out.
I really need help because the alternative at this time is to erase and
lose hours and hours of audio/video projects on one of the two drives.
I have tried DiskWarrior 4.2, TechToolPro 5.x, Apple'sDiskUtility by
repairing permissions, unplugged the fire wire cable and re-plugged the
cable, powered off and back on. No luck at all.
Is there any Utility or a terminal command to unlock those drives ?
Suggestions/help required please.
Have you tried enabling "root" and booting up into it? You should then
be able to change the permissions.
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Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
"Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is
... oh, never mind."
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