hi. i'm running a g4 with osx 10.3.3. and i cannot change the ownership and permissions for a 10gb external hard drive from 'read only'. it isn't giving me any options in Info 'apple i' under 'ownership and permissions'. thanks. any help will be appreciated.
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Are you logged in as a user with administrator permissions? If so, you might need to do two things: enable the root user (and use it to change the permissions) and/or run a permissions repair on the volume.
I would first open up the Disk Utility, and …
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Hello,
Are you logged in as a user with administrator permissions? If so, you might need to do two things: enable the root user (and use it to change the permissions) and/or run a permissions repair on the volume.
I would first open up the Disk Utility, and repair permissions on all drives. Reboot. Then try it again.
If that doesn't work, you may need to enable the root user under Mac OS X. Search out on www.apple.com how to do this.
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thanks christian i will give that a go.
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