have you submitted feedback to apple? of if you are a dev,a bug report about this to apple? I can read and write to my internal drive and I"m running lion so I really dunno.
Take care. On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:25 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Hi Anne and list, > > Thanks for the suggestion. One of my reinstalls was forced as a result of > changing all subfolders under the volume to read/write which appeared to > render Lion unbootable. > > I checked permissions all down the path -- e.g. I have read/write access to > the volume itself and /applications, yet when I attempt to copy a file there > from my external drive I receive the -8058 error. This occurs for all > files/folders when my Lion drive is the target. Come to think of it, after > my first installation of Lion I was able to copy my backed up iTunes library > to the /user/userid/music but could not get anything else to copy. So far I > have not been able to manually copy anything to any location. > > I agree that this is a permission issue because iTunes can copy from my > external drive, or import cds. Therefore, the system has access, but an > admin user does not. It seems impractical though to write a script every > time I need to write to my hd (if that would even work). > > This is a weird one!! Again, any/all ideas would be greatly appreciated. > Geoff > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Anne Robertson > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:35 AM > Subject: Re: Admin users can't write to HD in Lion. > > > Hello Geoff, > > I had a related problem with the Infovox iVox voices. I couldn't activate > them using my codes until I'd changed permissions on the Preferences folder > at root level. The next time I repaired permissions, they were set back to > what they were before I changed them. I changed everything to Read and Write. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 27 Jul 2011, at 06:14, Geoff Waaler wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> >> After doing a clean install of Lion on my mid 2010 13 in MBP, I am unable to >> copy files or folders to the root, or any sub folders on my internal HD. >> Whether I try command-c -> command-v or drag/drop, I consistently receive >> the following: >> >> "An unexpected error occurred (error code -8058)". >> >> I repaired permissions, even from the recovery disk (command-r during >> startup) and created another account with admin authority. I have also >> reinstalled Lion several times deleting the partition every time, but >> experience the same results. >> >> I called Apple support here in the US and he asked for my number, put me on >> hold and didn't call back when our connection broke. I'll probably try >> contacting support again tomorrow, but am curious whether anyone here has >> any suggestions? I'd rather not try updating from my last SnowLeopard >> timeMachine backup because as I discovered last night I had already >> installed iTunes 10.4 (an update I've been declining on Lion). I've got to >> believe that others with this hardware have performed clean installs, hence >> wonder if VO could be a factor somehow, since the support lines would >> doubtless be ringing off the hook if this affected the entire community of >> mid 2010 13 in MBP users? >> >> TIA for any suggestions, and best regards. >> Geoff >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the >> Mac-Access forum at the following URL: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the > Mac-Access forum at the following URL: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find a monthly formatted archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the following URL: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! 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