![]() ![]() And he would never touch Terminal in any way. My father managed to get that flag set on some of his pictures, and it took me a long time to find out why I couldn't delete or change the owner on those files. The system flag can be set in multiuser mode, but can ONLY be unset in single user mode. The dashes on the file line are where any flags would be listed. That long list of characters after "BackGround2/" is an ACL entry. Lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 1 May 14 20:40 -> /ĭrwxrwxrwx+ 13 xxxxxx staff - 510 Feb 22 17:46 GroundTM/Ġ: EBC292CE-0E64-4416-A676-288A96E46764 allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurityĭrwxrwxrwx 11 xxxxxx staff - 442 Feb 22 17:46 VMware4/ On my system, this produces: drwxr-xr-x 30 root wheel - 1088 May 6 23:17 AltBoot/ĭrwxrwxrwx 46 root wheel - 1632 May 16 11:43 BackGround1/ĭrwxrwxrwx+ 37 root admin - 1326 May 24 14:07 BackGround2/Ġ: EBC292CE-0E64-4416-A676-288A96E46764 allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directory_inherit This shows the current permissions, flags and Access Control List entries for each volume attached to the OS. After starting Terminal, type: cd /Volumes The "ls" binary program ("list directory contents ) requires command line flags to show all restrictions. ![]() There are actually three levels of obstruction to complete file control in OS X: permissions, access control lists and flags. ![]() PathFinder from CocoaTech provides more extensive info on permissions than Finder, and has a trial period, but basically Terminal is required to get complete information. I'm stumped as I've exhausted my knowledge of the workings of the Mac machine.įor reference, my Mac Book Pro is running Mac OS X 10.5.8.Permissions are annoyingly complicated, often because of Access Control Lists. The thing is, when I use "Get Info" on the Mac formatted portion, I can't change the permissions (they're all greyed out and unclickable). I've searched around a little for help on this problem, but the majority of answers seem to be with changing the permission on the hard drive. I can still access and write to both portions when I use my PC, so I figure it's something that happened or changed on the Mac. The problem arose when a few days ago I found I couldn't write to the Mac formatted portion of the hard drive from my Mac Book Pro. I have MacDrive on my PC, which runs Windows 7, so I can read/write on both formats. I bought a 1TB Western Digital external hard drive a while back and I partitioned the drive into 2 portions - one that was formatted NTFS and one that was formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I've been having trouble with an external hard drive I've been sharing between a PC and Mac. ![]() I'm fairly new to the Mac world, so please go easy on me. ![]()
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