File permissions

Evening all

I have just got my mac and set it up as i like. I have a number of my photos on an external hard drive (mainly RAW files but some JPEG's and TIFF files).

I have installed lightroom and photoshop on my new mac but I am having some issues with file permissions.

All the photos are read only so when moving between lightroom and photoshop I am unable to save them due to permissions issues.

I have been reading about how to change the permissions but I don't seem to have the option to do so.

I am on OSX 10.9.2

Appreciate any help!

Darren

Okay I may be mistaken but the reason I am having problems maybe because the external hard drive is NTFS.

OSX can only read NTFS so presumably that is why I cannot change the permission?

What format is your external hard drive using? And tell us how you're trying to change file permissions?

OK, I just read your second post. Yes that's right, if the external hard drive is formatted to NTFS, everything on it will be read only. You can't change those permissions because it also involves ownership. Try this:

Copy one photo from the external hard drive to your Mac and then right click on the file. Select get info. Go all the way down to the bottom and change the read only to read and write for yourself. Do not change anything else. Let us know if that works.

Okay.

I copied the contents of my external hard drive to my internal SSD (i had enough space!). I then used Disk Utility to format the external hard drive to Mac OS extended journaling then copied the photos back across.

Loaded lightroom and relocated the folder structure.

All seems fine now as I have read and write access.

Thanks to all.

Darren