behindthescenes

Yesterday one of our internal media drives got locked up so we no longer had read or write access even from the Admin account of our Mac Pro.

As a result, the easy Get Info permissions fix was not an option.

So, I dove into the Terminal to make some repairs. A simple chmod command didn’t work either, but here’s what did:

• Open a new Terminal window
  Located in ./Applications/Utilities
• Enter the following into the Terminal
  sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/<drive name here>
  • If there are spaces in the name you will need to put double quotes around it like so:
    /Volumes/”<drive name here>”
• Change permissions
  sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/<drive name here>

Hope that helps. Permissions problems can be a real pain.