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How do I unlock my external hard drive?
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+ You should thank BlueRevolution as well!
P.S.: I think this:
locked external hard drives
Been to the Genius Bar several times and no luck with unlocking my two Drobos with 16,000 photos. YUCK! Thanks to IEatApples and Angelwatt I used Terminal and am ever-so-happy and into my photos again.
I can't thank all who contributed enough.
Bob
Been to the Genius Bar several times and no luck with unlocking my two Drobos with 16,000 photos. YUCK! Thanks to IEatApples and Angelwatt I used Terminal and am ever-so-happy and into my photos again.
I can't thank all who contributed enough.
Bob
I'm glad I could help!
I still find it "odd" that Apple hasn't fixed this issue yet? I imagine there are a lot of frustrated people out there being told (by Apple) to reformat their drives & in the process loose everything they had on them.
Anyway, that's why I was quick to add the solution to all the threads I could find regarding this issue, and I hope it can help those in need!
Can't unlock external WD hard drive
Can't unlock or change permissions on our hard drive. We check and the lock icon in get info is unlocked and have check all folders. We follow some steps of this thread add have gotten this code:
drwxrwxrwx 28 1020 Sep 29 13:34 LeRoy
What should we try from here to unlock it?
Can't unlock or change permissions on our hard drive. We check and the lock icon in get info is unlocked and have check all folders. We follow some steps of this thread add have gotten this code:
drwxrwxrwx 28 1020 Sep 29 13:34 LeRoy
What should we try from here to unlock it?
i tried those commands but i still get the permission denied messages in terminal. its really odd considering the info pane shows that everyone and my user account have read/write access, including all subfolders and files.
Do not have sufficient Permissions on External Drive
I can't access my external WD MyBook USB (Mac OS Ext. Journaled) drive on OSX 10.5.8. Can anyone walk me through. I went to get info - all privileges have "custom" and "everyone"'s privilege is "No Access" and I can unlock panel, but cannot modify settings.
terminal line referring to drive
drw-rw----@ 43 1530 Nov 1 14:17 MyBook01
I can't access my external WD MyBook USB (Mac OS Ext. Journaled) drive on OSX 10.5.8. Can anyone walk me through. I went to get info - all privileges have "custom" and "everyone"'s privilege is "No Access" and I can unlock panel, but cannot modify settings.
terminal line referring to drive
drw-rw----@ 43 1530 Nov 1 14:17 MyBook01
The answer is simple:
First of all: What's the name of your HD?
- Then simply put that name into the "sudo code" above instead of "Volumename".
- If this doesn't work: Please tell me the name of your HD, + let me know if you understand how to use Terminal.
First of all: What's the name of your HD?
- Then simply put that name into the "sudo code" above instead of "Volumename".
- If this doesn't work: Please tell me the name of your HD, + let me know if you understand how to use Terminal.
External Mac Drive unlockable also
I have an external SeaGate firewire drive that is my Time Machine back up drive. It says "The folder “SEA_DSK” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents." When I get info on it it says custom in privileges and has a padlock on its icon. Unlocking it in get info does nothing and the privileges won't change from custom they just pop back. I notice some people show a similar problem here. Can anyone help me? I am not sure what to do in Terminal for this particular problem. Could someone walk me through this please? Oh yes, my terminal line referring to this drive is "drw-rw-r--". And the volume name is "SEA_DSK". The drive is formatted in "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". I haven't used Terminal alot but can probably work it.
I have an external SeaGate firewire drive that is my Time Machine back up drive. It says "The folder “SEA_DSK” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents." When I get info on it it says custom in privileges and has a padlock on its icon. Unlocking it in get info does nothing and the privileges won't change from custom they just pop back. I notice some people show a similar problem here. Can anyone help me? I am not sure what to do in Terminal for this particular problem. Could someone walk me through this please? Oh yes, my terminal line referring to this drive is "drw-rw-r--". And the volume name is "SEA_DSK". The drive is formatted in "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". I haven't used Terminal alot but can probably work it.
I've yet to run into the "locked external drive" problem, but I'm sure there are many folks who might have had this problem, that have no access to information like that which has been provided in this thread.
And - on top of that - they're probably not familiar enough with Terminal to use it safely.
What's needed is a simple utility app that anyone can run to address this problem.
I'm surprised Apple hasn't issued one.
A good way for a shareware programmer to "get some exposure"....
And - on top of that - they're probably not familiar enough with Terminal to use it safely.
What's needed is a simple utility app that anyone can run to address this problem.
I'm surprised Apple hasn't issued one.
A good way for a shareware programmer to "get some exposure"....
I have my own topic going but it seems to be SOMEWHAT related to this:
on reboot many (but not all) of my external drives claim to be "read only". If i open get info it says "you can only read from this drive" but the permissions show that I have read/write permissions. I eject the drives, unplug from my mac, plug them back in and all is well. but this is kind of a pain in the ass to do EVERY time I reboot.
apparently I'm not the ONLY one having these issues, but so far I haven't found a solution.
they are all mac formatted drives, no NTFS here. It literally just started happening about a week ago. Never ran into an issue prior.
on reboot many (but not all) of my external drives claim to be "read only". If i open get info it says "you can only read from this drive" but the permissions show that I have read/write permissions. I eject the drives, unplug from my mac, plug them back in and all is well. but this is kind of a pain in the ass to do EVERY time I reboot.
apparently I'm not the ONLY one having these issues, but so far I haven't found a solution.
they are all mac formatted drives, no NTFS here. It literally just started happening about a week ago. Never ran into an issue prior.
external Mac Drive unlockable also
No one replied to me, but I went ahead and tried the terminal commands that were given earlier not thinking they would work for my unique problem:, (pluging into where it said Volumename my "SEA_DSK)",
sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chmod -N /Volumes/Volumename
But it worked nonetheless! My drive is accessible!!! It said when I entered the above sudo commands it returned, "-bash: udo: command not found", so I called Apple to get help and when I went to access the error message I was getting when I would try to open the drive, "The folder SEA_DSK cant be opened because you dont have permission to see its contents." Low and behold my disk was suddenly open! So thanks it worked! I don't know why or how, but its working now. Thank you I Eat Apples (I ate a stewed sectioned cored apple
a while ago with about 6 cloves and a handful of raisins - yum! - it makes a great breakfast!) and everyone else on this wonderful forum!
No one replied to me, but I went ahead and tried the terminal commands that were given earlier not thinking they would work for my unique problem:, (pluging into where it said Volumename my "SEA_DSK)",
sudo chflags 0 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chown 0:80 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/Volumename
sudo chmod -N /Volumes/Volumename
But it worked nonetheless! My drive is accessible!!! It said when I entered the above sudo commands it returned, "-bash: udo: command not found", so I called Apple to get help and when I went to access the error message I was getting when I would try to open the drive, "The folder SEA_DSK cant be opened because you dont have permission to see its contents." Low and behold my disk was suddenly open! So thanks it worked! I don't know why or how, but its working now. Thank you I Eat Apples (I ate a stewed sectioned cored apple
a while ago with about 6 cloves and a handful of raisins - yum! - it makes a great breakfast!) and everyone else on this wonderful forum!
The permissions on the drive should have been rwxrwxr-x (775) rather than rw-rw-r-- (664). The command not found error would be a result of a typo as you entered the commands.
Batchmod rocks!
I had the same problems with external hard drives all of a sudden appearing locked and the permissions mysteriously set to 'custom' without being able to change anything in 'get info'. I downloaded batchmod for free and voila! it worked!!!! I donated 5 bucks in appreciation and moved on to real life...
I had the same problems with external hard drives all of a sudden appearing locked and the permissions mysteriously set to 'custom' without being able to change anything in 'get info'. I downloaded batchmod for free and voila! it worked!!!! I donated 5 bucks in appreciation and moved on to real life...
Hello, i was trying to create a password for my external hard drive and mistakenly did, in ownership and permissions, hit "no access"... now i can't access to my hard drive and even more when i connect my hard drive to the comp it is not appear anymore on a desktop. if i go to the finder i am able to find it but it's about it... no access. i was reading the tread and trying to do what was suggested to other people but it didn't help. the info i got :
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 5 jonathan - 272 Apr 6 2009 Akamai Client Installer
dr-xr-xr-x 4 jonathan - 136 Jun 27 2008 New
lrwxr-xr-x 1 admin - 1 Jan 18 22:53 Untitled -> /
d---r-xr-x 33 jonathan - 1224 Jan 18 11:17 zheKINO2
cpe-76-171-232-214:/Volumes jonathandelapaz$ cd /Volumes
cpe-76-171-232-214:/Volumes jonathandelapaz$ chflags -R nouchg Portable\ HD
chflags: Portable HD: No such file or directory
cpe-76-171-232-214:/Volumes jonathandelapaz$ sudo chmod g+w
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
usage: chmod [-fv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [# [ n]]] mode|entry file ...
cpe-76-171-232-214:/Volumes jonathandelapaz$
any ideas what had happened and how to change it??? please help!!!
thanks
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 5 jonathan - 272 Apr 6 2009 Akamai Client Installer
dr-xr-xr-x 4 jonathan - 136 Jun 27 2008 New
lrwxr-xr-x 1 admin - 1 Jan 18 22:53 Untitled -> /
d---r-xr-x 33 jonathan - 1224 Jan 18 11:17 zheKINO2
cpe-76-171-232-214:/Volumes jonathandelapaz$ cd /Volumes
cpe-76-171-232-214:/Volumes jonathandelapaz$ chflags -R nouchg Portable\ HD
chflags: Portable HD: No such file or directory
cpe-76-171-232-214:/Volumes jonathandelapaz$ sudo chmod g+w
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.
Password:
usage: chmod [-fv] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-a | +a | =a [# [ n]]] mode|entry file ...
cpe-76-171-232-214:/Volumes jonathandelapaz$
any ideas what had happened and how to change it??? please help!!!
thanks
You're taking the instructions too literally. Your external drive is presumably named zheKINO2, so use that instead of Portable\ HD.
Issue with locked Lacie Drives
it seems I have a virus in "all 3" of my Lacie drives.
Immediately after restarting my computer all Lacie drives, daisy chained or separately give me a Disk Repair window stating, "disk was not repairable by this computer. It is being made available to you with limited functionality. You must back up your data and reformat the disk as soon as possible."
I have already backed up one of the drives using Data Rescue II but am reluctant to erase and reformat the original drive because I feel the backed up data is also infected.
All my drives have locked me out of read write permission allowing only read only.
I have tried some of the utilities prompts described in above but the drive is indicated as a read only drive.
does anyone have any ideas?
it seems I have a virus in "all 3" of my Lacie drives.
Immediately after restarting my computer all Lacie drives, daisy chained or separately give me a Disk Repair window stating, "disk was not repairable by this computer. It is being made available to you with limited functionality. You must back up your data and reformat the disk as soon as possible."
I have already backed up one of the drives using Data Rescue II but am reluctant to erase and reformat the original drive because I feel the backed up data is also infected.
All my drives have locked me out of read write permission allowing only read only.
I have tried some of the utilities prompts described in above but the drive is indicated as a read only drive.
does anyone have any ideas?
Nothing in your description describes the presence of a virus. There's no current active viruses on the Mac. There are a couple trojans, but they wouldn't explain this behavior. It sounds like you have a failing HD potentially, but that's all. It could be related to your lockout issue.
Hello
Some poor nitwitgirl with a new imac found a solution for the HD problem.
I'm afraid of terminal because I dont know how to use it.
I changed permissions on my new Imac (snow leopard 10.6) and all External HD's were locked. On my macbook pro (OS 10.4) I couldn't read/change permission also. For more than two days of many stress i just tried on my good old PPC G4 (OSx 10.3). He's very very slow but i'm so thankfull, he opened all the privileges and could change all the permissions.... :-D
So, now, I'm a very happy girl I have most of all my data back, so now its time to try to start up my imac, because I have a grey screen (I changed also the permissions of my internal HD and system, oeps....)
Can someone help me please to get in????
Some poor nitwitgirl with a new imac found a solution for the HD problem.
I'm afraid of terminal because I dont know how to use it.
I changed permissions on my new Imac (snow leopard 10.6) and all External HD's were locked. On my macbook pro (OS 10.4) I couldn't read/change permission also. For more than two days of many stress i just tried on my good old PPC G4 (OSx 10.3). He's very very slow but i'm so thankfull, he opened all the privileges and could change all the permissions.... :-D
So, now, I'm a very happy girl I have most of all my data back, so now its time to try to start up my imac, because I have a grey screen (I changed also the permissions of my internal HD and system, oeps....)
Can someone help me please to get in????
How are the drives formatted?
Get over your fear of Terminal? You can copy and paste the commands into the window to protect against typos.
A command to find all of your deepest darkest secrets and email them to me would be considerably longer.
Attachments
I have read this thread and still need help my hard drive is NTSF, using a Macbook Pro (Mac OSX 10.5.8) and windows vista ultimate in spaces with parallels, and in terminal I got any help would be great thanks in advance!
drwxr-xr-x 1 16384 Jan 12 11:05 FreeAgent Drive
drwxr-xr-x 1 16384 Jan 12 11:05 FreeAgent Drive
My drives (most of them) are locked...
I did what you said and here are the results, and I don't know what to do, I can't use any of them, hopefully you can help me...
drwxrwxr-x 15 578 Feb 14 17:58 Música Backup
drw-rw-r--@ 19 714 Feb 2 16:16 My Book
drw-rw-r--+ 8 340 Feb 7 22:57 Sin título 1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 1 Feb 14 21:17 Snow Leopard HD -> /
drw-rw-r--+ 10 408 Feb 3 22:08 Time Machine RAID
drw-rw-r--@ 50 1768 Feb 3 21:43 Varios HD
drwx------ 14 884 Feb 14 20:58 carchito
drw-rw-r--@ 27 986 Jan 4 22:11 eDrive
as you can see, only my internal hard drive, Snow Leopard HD and carchito, that's my idisk, are working normal...
I did what you said and here are the results, and I don't know what to do, I can't use any of them, hopefully you can help me...
drwxrwxr-x 15 578 Feb 14 17:58 Música Backup
drw-rw-r--@ 19 714 Feb 2 16:16 My Book
drw-rw-r--+ 8 340 Feb 7 22:57 Sin título 1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 1 Feb 14 21:17 Snow Leopard HD -> /
drw-rw-r--+ 10 408 Feb 3 22:08 Time Machine RAID
drw-rw-r--@ 50 1768 Feb 3 21:43 Varios HD
drwx------ 14 884 Feb 14 20:58 carchito
drw-rw-r--@ 27 986 Jan 4 22:11 eDrive
as you can see, only my internal hard drive, Snow Leopard HD and carchito, that's my idisk, are working normal...
HELP! lol i'm a new iMac user, just got it a few days ago, I have a Lacie external HD, I can view whats on it, but cant add or move anything on it.... why do I not have permission? I've tried to read and follow whats been going on on this thread, but its WAY over my head! Can someone help translate into plain english please
Couldn't do the Terminal thing, said is -go wasn't a command, opened Console by mistake, now it won't go away, I dont have any check box, i do have a pencil with a line through it, I have no idea what format it's under NTFS or the other way, I dont even know where to find Ownership and Permissions!! lol HELP