I don't have permission....

[swamphox]

I have a 27" imac and I removed the drive for fear that it was failing and I have removed it and I am in the process of copying that main drive from the imac. Formerly attached to the imac was a Guardian Maximus external usb drive. This drive was formatted to work with the imac. I am trying to access some files on this external drive and I get this error. "The folder "Guardian Maximus" can't be opened because you don't have pernission to see its contents." I have this drive connected to my MBP and I can not change sharing and permissions. It is set to custom and will not accept changes. How do I get access to my drive? I have read other posts about this problem and I run into problems using the terminal to change settings and I need to some very clear instruction.

Thanks

 

[swamphox]

After a long search and many bad instructions, I found one that works with 2 terminal commands.


run the following terminal commands (copy and paste, please)


sudo chflags 0 /volumes/*

sudo chmod a+rx /volumes/*



you'll have to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal. this should unlock your drives.