Running 10.5 on an iBook G4.
Question is as follows, but you can read the old question below if you think you may have further insight into the specifics of my problem.
Is there a way to mass manipulate the sharing properties of a group of file folders? Essentially, I have a good many read only files which I need to swap to read & write.
Original question:
I use various old HDs for external drives, including a 20 gig ex Mac drive which is the subject at hand. I'm dealing with the moving around of a good many mp3 files, ripped from my own collection years ago to DVD-Rs. I have no problem using, manipulating and sorting these files on the computer's HD, and I have no problem copying these files to the external drive. But for some reason, every time I try to move or change one of these files or folders once on the drive, it demands a password. This is tedious! I've got thousands of albums i'm trying to sort out so I can actually locate this music when I want it. I've tried everything thing I can find and think of to get around this, but nothing works. Do I need to format the drive in a different way? I think it's straight journal extended at the moment. Or is this simply an issue of dealing with an external drive? Or is it the way I burned the music way back when, which was originally done on a PC?
Not trying to waste your time, sorry. OK, seems the DVD-R is the trouble at hand. When I change the individual Read&Write permissions of the album files, they move around and rename just fine. But do I really need to individually change these for every album? Is there no way to group manipulate file information?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm tearing my hair out here. Thanks.
Question is as follows, but you can read the old question below if you think you may have further insight into the specifics of my problem.
Is there a way to mass manipulate the sharing properties of a group of file folders? Essentially, I have a good many read only files which I need to swap to read & write.
Original question:
I use various old HDs for external drives, including a 20 gig ex Mac drive which is the subject at hand. I'm dealing with the moving around of a good many mp3 files, ripped from my own collection years ago to DVD-Rs. I have no problem using, manipulating and sorting these files on the computer's HD, and I have no problem copying these files to the external drive. But for some reason, every time I try to move or change one of these files or folders once on the drive, it demands a password. This is tedious! I've got thousands of albums i'm trying to sort out so I can actually locate this music when I want it. I've tried everything thing I can find and think of to get around this, but nothing works. Do I need to format the drive in a different way? I think it's straight journal extended at the moment. Or is this simply an issue of dealing with an external drive? Or is it the way I burned the music way back when, which was originally done on a PC?
Not trying to waste your time, sorry. OK, seems the DVD-R is the trouble at hand. When I change the individual Read&Write permissions of the album files, they move around and rename just fine. But do I really need to individually change these for every album? Is there no way to group manipulate file information?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm tearing my hair out here. Thanks.
