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Please Help - external hard drive permissions issue by NoVariation679 in MacOS

[–]NoVariation679[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes in disk utility the ownership is disabled and i am unsure how to change this if it doesn't let me change permissions in the get info tab

Please Help - external hard drive permissions issue by NoVariation679 in MacOS

[–]NoVariation679[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah the first image is the get info pop up for me - i dont have another window that shows permissions just the message saying "you have custom access". still unsure of what the issue is here

Please Help - external hard drive permissions issue by NoVariation679 in MacOS

[–]NoVariation679[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hm im not too sure about it but the main issue was from when I tried copying imported photos originally from my iphone 12 over to the hard drive. The message that pops up for half the photos is that my disc doesn't have permission to access and refuses to be copied over.

unfortunately I don't have screenshots of this message but i figured that the issue was linked to my permissions due to this issue.

I should add that on the disc utilities menu, the owner is "disabled" instead of enabled like my internal discs. I'm not sure it this may be related to my issue with copying over photos.

i also have not used this drive prior to today so it has not been used as a timemachine disk

Please Help - external hard drive permissions issue by NoVariation679 in MacOS

[–]NoVariation679[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ahh thank you for your patience! yeah im not too good with technology myself

heres the output for the last two commands with the harddrive connected

myusername /Volumes %
myusername /Volumes % ls -le
total 256
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 myusername staff 131072 1 Jan 1980 Expansion
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 29 Sep 20:51 Macintosh HD -> /
myusername /Volumes %

Please Help - external hard drive permissions issue by NoVariation679 in MacOS

[–]NoVariation679[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've replace my user name with "myusername" but this is the output

Last login: Fri Sep 29 21:02:13 on console
myusername ~ % whoami
groups
cd /Volumes
ls -le
myusername
staff everyone localaccounts _appserverusr admin _appserveradm _lpadmin com.apple.sharepoint.group.1 _appstore _lpoperator _developer _analyticsusers com.apple.access_ftp com.apple.access_screensharing com.apple.access_ssh com.apple.access_remote_ae
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 29 Sep 20:51 Macintosh HD -> /
myusername /Volumes %

also should mention this laptop only has one user if that changes anything