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Permissions Not Acceptable
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I have an external drive that I tried to change permissions on to allow all users r w access. After doing so, the permissions listing in Get Info showed ‘custom’. After that, I couldn’t access the drive from any account, admin or other. Is there a Unix command or any other method that I can use to correct this problem? I don’t know why this happened. If someone can shed some light on this, I’d appreciate it.
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Did you try the Repair Permissions feature in Disk Utility? It should see the drive, even if you can’t mount it.
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Yes, I tried repair permissions. I did resolve the problem by using Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner, running the finder as root, and copying what I wanted off of the drive to the internal drive and repartitioning the external to get rid of the unwanted locked state.
Thanks.
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You know, I’d gathered you knew what you were doing, and I should have prefaced my question with a, “I bet you already tried this, but…”
I’m glad you got it solved!
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