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Problem viewing files on my external hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="usagora" data-source="post: 1807879" data-attributes="member: 60390"><p>No idea why those movie files would play fine on the "bad" drive but not when opened from your copy destination unless the file became corrupted in the transfer. Otherwise, it's a mystery to me. The read/write thing sounds like a permissions issue. If you right-click (or control-click) one of those files and click on "Get Info," what does it say for the permissions at the bottom of the window that pops up? Your user account should have read/write permissions. If not, see if you can change it. </p><p></p><p><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4848/46183785072_f76283fbef_o.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I'm glad you were able to salvage the majority of your files, though. Now get that backup configuration set up! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="usagora, post: 1807879, member: 60390"] No idea why those movie files would play fine on the "bad" drive but not when opened from your copy destination unless the file became corrupted in the transfer. Otherwise, it's a mystery to me. The read/write thing sounds like a permissions issue. If you right-click (or control-click) one of those files and click on "Get Info," what does it say for the permissions at the bottom of the window that pops up? Your user account should have read/write permissions. If not, see if you can change it. [IMG]https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4848/46183785072_f76283fbef_o.png[/IMG] I'm glad you were able to salvage the majority of your files, though. Now get that backup configuration set up! :D [/QUOTE]
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