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External HD was not disconnected properly...
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<blockquote data-quote="NanoBite" data-source="post: 302148" data-attributes="member: 13565"><p>If your Ext HD is formatted NTFS this could be the explanation as to why you can't select your Ext HD for repairing permissions. NTFS doesn't allow Macs to write, only read access is allowed. What is the format of your Ext HD?</p><p></p><p>The difference between Repair Disc Permissions and Repair Disc in a nutshell is that Permissions relate to whether or not you can read/write/modify a file. Your permissions on a certain file created by another user may be read only, or read/write/modify etc. Repair Disc is where Disc Utility detects an error with the HD and is able to repair it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NanoBite, post: 302148, member: 13565"] If your Ext HD is formatted NTFS this could be the explanation as to why you can't select your Ext HD for repairing permissions. NTFS doesn't allow Macs to write, only read access is allowed. What is the format of your Ext HD? The difference between Repair Disc Permissions and Repair Disc in a nutshell is that Permissions relate to whether or not you can read/write/modify a file. Your permissions on a certain file created by another user may be read only, or read/write/modify etc. Repair Disc is where Disc Utility detects an error with the HD and is able to repair it. [/QUOTE]
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