Behind the Scenes » HDD http://backstar.com/blog of cutting edge art, media + technology Wed, 19 May 2010 18:49:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Hard Drive Permissions Fix http://backstar.com/blog/2009/09/25/hard-drive-permissions-fix/ http://backstar.com/blog/2009/09/25/hard-drive-permissions-fix/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:58:49 +0000 Ben Baker-Smith http://backstar.com/blog/?p=422 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.

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