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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1657458"><p>I couldn't make out the details of the screen shot because it was fuzzy when I made it large enough to try to read, but from what I can make out, it looks like Everyone is still just read only. And the progress bar doesn't seem to have made any progress, which may indicate the process has crashed or stalled. You can open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder to see if it has ceased to operate (it will be colored in red). The quickest way to see it is to open Act Mon, click on the CPU tab and then click on the % CPU header until the processes are listed in decreasing percent. If it's active, it will be using CPU. If it's not, as I said it may be in red for stalled. And if the progress bar isn't moving along, nothing is happening. You can kill the process and restart it. I'd suggest a reboot may be the better way to kill the process as the shutdown should try to end that stalled job and if it can't, it should give you the opportunity to Force Quit. Or you can click on the Apple logo upper left and select Force Quit and pick the task from the list and quit it there. </p><p></p><p>What I mean by "two accounts" is that if you look at the image I posted, you'll see a account for "jakerichards (me)." That is my account on that machine. Now, if I had a second machine and if it had an account named "jakerichards" even though those two accounts look to my eyes to be the same, OS X is treating them as two different accounts. And on that shared drive, some files would have privileges for the account on one machine and others could have privileges on the other. To my eye, they would look to have one owner, namely, "jakerichards" but in fact there would be two owners, and unless I set it up so that jakerichards on machine 1 has access to the files created by jakerichards on machine 2, they will be blocked. But by granting Everyone read and write, I solve the problem by giving all accounts read and write privileges. Does that help?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1657458"] I couldn't make out the details of the screen shot because it was fuzzy when I made it large enough to try to read, but from what I can make out, it looks like Everyone is still just read only. And the progress bar doesn't seem to have made any progress, which may indicate the process has crashed or stalled. You can open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder to see if it has ceased to operate (it will be colored in red). The quickest way to see it is to open Act Mon, click on the CPU tab and then click on the % CPU header until the processes are listed in decreasing percent. If it's active, it will be using CPU. If it's not, as I said it may be in red for stalled. And if the progress bar isn't moving along, nothing is happening. You can kill the process and restart it. I'd suggest a reboot may be the better way to kill the process as the shutdown should try to end that stalled job and if it can't, it should give you the opportunity to Force Quit. Or you can click on the Apple logo upper left and select Force Quit and pick the task from the list and quit it there. What I mean by "two accounts" is that if you look at the image I posted, you'll see a account for "jakerichards (me)." That is my account on that machine. Now, if I had a second machine and if it had an account named "jakerichards" even though those two accounts look to my eyes to be the same, OS X is treating them as two different accounts. And on that shared drive, some files would have privileges for the account on one machine and others could have privileges on the other. To my eye, they would look to have one owner, namely, "jakerichards" but in fact there would be two owners, and unless I set it up so that jakerichards on machine 1 has access to the files created by jakerichards on machine 2, they will be blocked. But by granting Everyone read and write, I solve the problem by giving all accounts read and write privileges. Does that help? [/QUOTE]
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