MP 1,1-5,1 Hard Drive Permissions Advice

[rodedwards]

Hi !

I wonder if i may ask some advice on Hard Drive Permissions on my 2009 Mac Pro 5,1 running Mojave 10.14.6.

I have a main hard drive that runs my system, plus four internal 3.5" storage hard drives.

Two of these storage hard drives seem to have different permissions from the other two. This means that when i try to add a file to drive "Raw Files" - it says i need to enter password and "Authenticate" first.

I also see that the "Drive Info" show "Fetching..."

1 ) How do i set up the drive to not require pasword authentication?
2 ) What does "Fetching" mean?
3) If i change drive access permissions will it cause problems with my existing Drobo 4 Bay back up?

Thanks in advance ...

 

[MarkC426]

There would normally be a 'user' in the list, typically your name when you logged in.

 

[rodedwards]

Any idea why there isn't?!

Or what i need to do?!

I've never really played with these settings ...

 

[MarkC426]

How have you setup your user account, do you log in with a password and with your name?

In system prefs/users, do you have 'allow user to administer this computer' checked?

 

[rodedwards]

I've set up system password but don't use it. I'm only user with my own name.
Yep - "Allow user to administer this computer" is checked too ...
But my name isn't listed - but neither is it on my Macbook Pro laptop.

 

[rodedwards]

Ah ha ... problem solved so thought I'd update post for others.

It seems I had added the extra drives after i'd initialised them and formatted them in an external USB 3 HDD Inateck Docking Station. I didn't realise it was important to initialise HDD in Mac Pro itself.

Now updating drives so all permissions show the same system info with no authentication of passwords necessary.

Problem solved.