Re: All NON Boot Drives are 'Locked' ???
At 10:08 PM -0800 11/27/2009, aussieshepsrock wrote: 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 Be cautious. OS X locks volumes for specific reasons. In this particular case - your need to repair the volumes indicates that they were locked to prevent data from being destroyed. During the time between when you modified the permissions and when you repaired the volumes, you were very vulnerable. Always check your system log. There will be messages there saying exactly what happened. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
All NON Boot Drives are 'Locked' ???
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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: All NON Boot Drives are 'Locked' ???
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=1961253start=0tstart=0. 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
