ever since upgrading to leopard (yesterday 10/29) many folders on my external hd are locked. I never set a password for them...so when a window pops up asking for authentication I do not have the proper user name or password. any suggestions?
ever since upgrading to leopard (yesterday 10/29) many folders on my external hd are locked. I never set a password for them...so when a window pops up asking for authentication I do not have the proper user name or password. any suggestions?
I have had that problem before, you need to go into terminal and cd to the external drive and run a chmod command on all the items on the drive. The command is something like this:
chmod 755 -R *
Again it is something like that, but I can not remember the exact command, but I have had the same thing happen to me on 10.4. I will edit this post if I can find the exact command!
Also check to see if it has turned your admin account into a standard account. If that's the case then there's a different fix for that.
thanks for the info. I checked out that site, but I don't think that is my issue. I never set a password for any items on my external hd, and when I went through the list in keychain there was nothing pertaining to passwords on my external. i'm kind of a mac noob, so I appreciate your help and patience. I checked, my account is still set as administrator.
I have had that problem before, you need to go into terminal and cd to the external drive and run a chmod command on all the items on the drive. The command is something like this:
chmod 755 -R *
Again it is something like that, but I can not remember the exact command, but I have had the same thing happen to me on 10.4. I will edit this post if I can find the exact command!
Hope this helps!
lol, if you have the time can you provide a step-by-step...I'm a mac noob, so thats a little over my head. I appreciate your help.
lol, if you have the time can you provide a step-by-step...I'm a mac noob, so thats a little over my head. I appreciate your help.
If your external drive is named jmf283:
open terminal and execute these commands:
cd /Volumes/jmf283 [ENTER]
chmod -R 755 * [ENTER]
The 755 gives everyone read and execute access and the owner write access. The -R makes the changes recursively (searches all subfolders of the folder you are in (root in this case)). * makes the changes to all files.
BTW: I believe this only works if the drive is HFS+ formatted (no SMB mounts).
The 755 gives everyone read and execute access and the owner write access. The -R makes the changes recursively (searches all subfolders of the folder you are in (root in this case)). * makes the changes to all files.
BTW: I believe this only works if the drive is HFS+ formatted (no SMB mounts).
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help!!
ever since upgrading to leopard (yesterday 10/29) many folders on my external hd are locked. I never set a password for them...so when a window pops up asking for authentication I do not have the proper user name or password. any suggestions?
I have had that problem before, you need to go into terminal and cd to the external drive and run a chmod command on all the items on the drive. The command is something like this:
chmod 755 -R *
Again it is something like that, but I can not remember the exact command, but I have had the same thing happen to me on 10.4. I will edit this post if I can find the exact command!
Hope this helps!
help!!
ever since upgrading to leopard many folders on my external hd are locked.
Don't panic. See here
Also check to see if it has turned your admin account into a standard account. If that's the case then there's a different fix for that.
Don't panic. See here
Also check to see if it has turned your admin account into a standard account. If that's the case then there's a different fix for that.
thanks for the info. I checked out that site, but I don't think that is my issue. I never set a password for any items on my external hd, and when I went through the list in keychain there was nothing pertaining to passwords on my external. i'm kind of a mac noob, so I appreciate your help and patience. I checked, my account is still set as administrator.
I have had that problem before, you need to go into terminal and cd to the external drive and run a chmod command on all the items on the drive. The command is something like this:
chmod 755 -R *
Again it is something like that, but I can not remember the exact command, but I have had the same thing happen to me on 10.4. I will edit this post if I can find the exact command!
Hope this helps!
lol, if you have the time can you provide a step-by-step...I'm a mac noob, so thats a little over my head. I appreciate your help.
lol, if you have the time can you provide a step-by-step...I'm a mac noob, so thats a little over my head. I appreciate your help.
If your external drive is named jmf283:
open terminal and execute these commands:
cd /Volumes/jmf283 [ENTER]
chmod -R 755 * [ENTER]
The 755 gives everyone read and execute access and the owner write access. The -R makes the changes recursively (searches all subfolders of the folder you are in (root in this case)). * makes the changes to all files.
BTW: I believe this only works if the drive is HFS+ formatted (no SMB mounts).
If your external drive is named jmf283:
open terminal and execute these commands:
cd /Volumes/jmf283 [ENTER]
chmod -R 755 * [ENTER]
The 755 gives everyone read and execute access and the owner write access. The -R makes the changes recursively (searches all subfolders of the folder you are in (root in this case)). * makes the changes to all files.
BTW: I believe this only works if the drive is HFS+ formatted (no SMB mounts).
i'll check it out when i get home. thank you