Sharing & Permissions

[Kinnie]

I have some files on an external drive. I want to add more files to it but cannot paste. The "get info" indicates that "you can only read" the contents of the drive. I suspect that may be the problem.

How do I change the sharing & permission on the external drive?

 

[Kevriano]

I suspect that the drive is formatted to NTFS, which you cannot write to by default in Mac OS.
If it is, the the free NTFS Mounter will solve that issue for you.
If it's not then return to us letting us know what format the external drive is.

Download NTFS Mounter for Mac - Mount NTFS volumes in read/write mode. MacUpdate.com

 

[Kinnie]

Kevriano,

Thanks. NTFS Mounter didn't work. The external drive is my movie volume. I added the files to it from mac previously - no problem.

I think I changed something (setting) in order to deny other users the privilege to add files to it. But i cannot remember what I did. I have a problem with my short term memory. I have a problem with my short term memory.

How do change the sharing & permissions to "read and write"?

 

[thurstmw]

Right click on the drive -> get info and adjust the sharing and permission settings.

 

[Kinnie]

..... Right click on the drive -> get info and adjust the sharing and permission settings. ....

I did that but cannot change the sharing and permission settings. The "get info" screen doesn't allow me to change the permissions. How can it be done.

 

[Kevriano]

You can chnage the read write permissions from "get info". There's a drop down menu that says "sharing amd permissions". Change it in there.
These things happen sometimes.

 

[Kinnie]

Guys, no success. I only have the option "you can only read" from Get Info. No choice. This is now the situation on two external hard drives (volumes). I get the feeling that something on the OS side should be changed .... but i dunno what.

 

[Kevriano]

In get info, highlight the part where it says name/priveleges. Click the lock to allow you to make changes, and then change it from read only, to read/write.

 

[Kinnie]

Kevriano,

See image below. I cannot do what you suggest. Thats my problem ........

 

[Dysfunction]

Yes, you can not write to an NTFS partition natively.

 

[Kinnie]

OK, how can I add data to the volume?

 

[Kevriano]

NTFS Mounter, as I suggested. It does work.
Once installed you get an icon in your Finder bar. Open NTFS mounter from there and it should show the NTFS formatted drive grayed out. Click it and it will mount it for you, leaving it ready to be written to.

 

[Kinnie]

Kevriano and all,

Downloaded NTFS Mounter and re-installed it. When clicking on the icon in the finder bar it shows the drive (KvE Movies) and says it found "1 NTFS Volume" (this is grayed out). No response if clicked on grayed out. If clicked on KvE Movies it grays out the volume icon momentarily. NTFS mounter not working. Luckily I have the data on 2 back-up volumes.

How do I "reformat" the NTFS drive to mac friendly drive?

 

[Kevriano]

Hmm. Can't understand why it's not mounting that volume. It should no problem, if it sees it as an NTFS volume, just click mount.
If you want to reformat it will mean erasing the drive.
Open disk utility, and it will show the available drives. Select your chosen drive and click erase, and in the drop down menu select "Mac OS Extended Journaled" as the format.
Doing this will mean it is no longer readable in Windows by the way.

 

[Kinnie]

Guys,

Thanks. I got it sorted t last. Downloaded a trial version of Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 9.0 (English) and it worked. Needless to say, I promptly changed the trial version to a paid version.

Thanks again for all assistance.

Regards,