We now have a new (to us) late-2013 MBPro Retina - now on a fresh
install of Catalina. The HD from the old MBPro mid-2012 (also Catalina)
has been removed and is now in an external Icybox caddie. When
connected to the newer Pro we can see all the Apps and have transferred
the ones we use across.
However when we go to Users->Us->.... most of the folders there have red circles with a bar across and the contents cannot be seen or accessed.
Why is that ? Is there anything we can do to open them up to become accessible to us to allow us to extract some of the files in there?
In article <to04te$156g9$1@dont-email.me>, jbrennand
did you let the system migrate it?
in finder, select the external drive and choose get info (command-i),
then tick ignore ownership on this volume (at the bottom).
however, that won't entirely resolve the issue.
did you let the system migrate it?
Nope - just pulled the HD from a destroyed (by a falling shelf!) MBPro -
post mortem. Didn't have its HD in the caddie for a restore - as its a
1TB HD and the new laptop is just 250 GB - so I thought that might cause
an issue?
Anyway, I hoped just to cherry pick off it what was actually needed.
most of the TB is music and photos - which are backed up elsewhere - its
just the few buried gems we crave :-)
in finder, select the external drive and choose get info (command-i),
then tick ignore ownership on this volume (at the bottom).
Will give that a go tomorrow and report back
however, that won't entirely resolve the issue.
What might allow us to get it resolved?
In article <to0cnn$15qij$1@dont-email.me>, jbrennand
<brennand@ntlworld.com> wrote:
did you let the system migrate it?
Nope - just pulled the HD from a destroyed (by a falling shelf!) MBPro -
post mortem. Didn't have its HD in the caddie for a restore - as its a
1TB HD and the new laptop is just 250 GB - so I thought that might cause
an issue?
it's only an issue if you have more stuff than will fit.
Anyway, I hoped just to cherry pick off it what was actually needed.
most of the TB is music and photos - which are backed up elsewhere - its
just the few buried gems we crave :-)
that would have worked if you created the same accounts in the same
sequence, so the ids (and permissions) matched.
in finder, select the external drive and choose get info (command-i),
then tick ignore ownership on this volume (at the bottom).
Will give that a go tomorrow and report back
ok
however, that won't entirely resolve the issue.
What might allow us to get it resolved?
reinstall and migrate. you can choose to skip some stuff if needed so
that everything fits. the accounts and ownership will be the same as
the old system so there shouldn't be any permissions issues.
User tells me that the few items we cant access can either be found on
his other drive or easily downloadable for a few quid - so not too bad.
On 22/12/2022 02:28, nospam wrote:
In article<to0cnn$15qij$1@dont-email.me>, jbrennand
<brennand@ntlworld.com> wrote:
did you let the system migrate it?
Nope - just pulled the HD from a destroyed (by a falling shelf!) MBPro - post mortem. Didn't have its HD in the caddie for a restore - as its a 1TB HD and the new laptop is just 250 GB - so I thought that might cause an issue?
it's only an issue if you have more stuff than will fit.
Anyway, I hoped just to cherry pick off it what was actually needed.
most of the TB is music and photos - which are backed up elsewhere - its just the few buried gems we crave :-)
that would have worked if you created the same accounts in the same sequence, so the ids (and permissions) matched.
in finder, select the external drive and choose get info (command-i), then tick ignore ownership on this volume (at the bottom).
Will give that a go tomorrow and report back
ok
A no go...
however, that won't entirely resolve the issue.
What might allow us to get it resolved?
reinstall and migrate. you can choose to skip some stuff if needed so
that everything fits. the accounts and ownership will be the same as
the old system so there shouldn't be any permissions issues.
User tells me that the few items we cant access can either be found on
his other drive or easily downloadable for a few quid - so not too bad.
I will know what to do next time though :-)
Thanks again for your help - John
We now have a new (to us) late-2013 MBPro Retina - now on a fresh
install of Catalina. The HD from the old MBPro mid-2012 (also Catalina)
has been removed and is now in an external Icybox caddie. When
connected to the newer Pro we can see all the Apps and have transferred
the ones we use across.
However when we go to Users->Us->.... most of the folders there have red circles with a bar across and the contents cannot be seen or accessed.
Why is that ? Is there anything we can do to open them up to become accessible to us to allow us to extract some of the files in there?
Thanks for any input - John
You don¹t have permission to access those folders.
Launch Terminal. Navigate to Volumes (you¹ll usually need to "cd .." a few times as you¹ll usually be in your home directory.) Do an ls to see the
names that Terminal has for the volumes. Identify the volume you care about. Type
sudo chmod a+w<directory>
In article<0001HW.2955245302024AE9700003E6138F@news.supernews.com>,
WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
You don¹t have permission to access those folders.
Launch Terminal. Navigate to Volumes (you¹ll usually need to "cd .." a few times as you¹ll usually be in your home directory.) Do an ls to see the names that Terminal has for the volumes. Identify the volume you care about.
Type
sudo chmod a+w<directory>
don't do that.
what is needed is chown, to change ownership, since the computer thinks they're owned by a different user because the user ids don't match.
sudo chmod a+w<directory>
don't do that.
what is needed is chown, to change ownership, since the computer thinks they're owned by a different user because the user ids don't match.
If you do a chown, then, yes, you change ownership. However, in most cases the external drive will be marked read-only, especially if it was an APFS volume.
If you do the chmod it¹s not read-only anymore, and it doesn¹t
matter what the ownership is, it¹s marked 777 and everything should be accessible.
Worst case, go to the finder, get info on the volume, click
Œignore ownership¹.
We now have a new (to us) late-2013 MBPro Retina - now on a fresh
install of Catalina. The HD from the old MBPro mid-2012 (also Catalina)
has been removed and is now in an external Icybox caddie. When
connected to the newer Pro we can see all the Apps and have transferred
the ones we use across.
However when we go to Users->Us->.... most of the folders there have red circles with a bar across and the contents cannot be seen or accessed.
Why is that ? Is there anything we can do to open them up to become accessible to us to allow us to extract some of the files in there?
Thanks for any input - John
On 21/12/2022 23:29, jbrennand wrote:
We now have a new (to us) late-2013 MBPro Retina - now on a fresh
install of Catalina. The HD from the old MBPro mid-2012 (also Catalina)
has been removed and is now in an external Icybox caddie. When
connected to the newer Pro we can see all the Apps and have transferred
the ones we use across.
However when we go to Users->Us->.... most of the folders there have red
circles with a bar across and the contents cannot be seen or accessed.
Why is that ? Is there anything we can do to open them up to become
accessible to us to allow us to extract some of the files in there?
Thanks for any input - John
I'm pretty sure all I've done in the past is to click on the top folder,
hit Command-I and use the Permission box at the bottom to change the ownership (enter your admin password in the padlock first), and then
select the Apply To Enclosed items in the drop-down menu.
I'm pretty sure all I've done in the past is to click on the top folder,
hit Command-I and use the Permission box at the bottom to change the ownership (enter your admin password in the padlock first), and then
select the Apply To Enclosed items in the drop-down menu.
On 24/12/2022 11:36, Andy Hewitt wrote:
Andy you are a genius ! That's worked :-)
I'm pretty sure all I've done in the past is to click on the top
folder, hit Command-I and use the Permission box at the bottom to
change the ownership (enter your admin password in the padlock first),
and then select the Apply To Enclosed items in the drop-down menu.
I had tried that on one of the downstream folders and got nowhere. But I hadn't twigged to do it on the Top, "Users", folder. Did it to that one and... voila ....all is now good - we can now access all folders.
Thanks for the input. JohnB
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