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OK, gurus. Here's a fun one.

I have an old 3.5" drive from a buddy's iMac. The machine died but I was able to pull the drive and connect it to my Ubuntu machine. I see all of the folders but some of them have that damned little red X on them telling me I don't have the required permissions to access them. How do I; 1) force a permissions change, or 2) force the copy process anyway so I can give him the files on a thumb drive?

Thanks!

OK, gurus. Here's a fun one. I have an old 3.5" drive from a buddy's iMac. The machine died but I was able to pull the drive and connect it to my Ubuntu machine. I see all of the folders but some of them have that damned little red X on them telling me I don't have the required permissions to access them. How do I; 1) force a permissions change, or 2) force the copy process anyway so I can give him the files on a thumb drive? Thanks!

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If you have no plan to boot on that one later, simply use chmod/chown to change the user folder's permissions.

sudo chmod 755 -R /Path/To/The/Disk/Users/

sudo chown root:wheel -R /Path/To/The/Disk/Users/

Remove sudo if you are logged as root.

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sudo chmod 755 -R [folder]

I opened terminal in the Users folder and ran that command on the one I wanted to copy. We'll see what happens!

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chmod should be enough, though macOS uses some special attributes to lock/hide folders.

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I opened terminal in the Users folder and ran that command on the one I wanted to copy. We'll see what happens!

Yeah... no change. Folder is still blocked. Is there a parameter I need to add to make it read/write?

EDIT: I tried sudo chmod -R ugo+rw as well. No joy.

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By the way, I wound up borrowing a macbook from a buddy f mine and using it to boot into the old iMac drive.

I appreciate all the help.

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How dare you!

You’re welcome 😉

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TransMac - run in windowsVM

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Damn. Only available in Windows.

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How about sudo chmod 777 -R /path/*

That should blow away all permissions.

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How about sudo chmod 777 -R /path/*

That should blow away all permissions.

No joy here either. I've got to go focus on work for a bit. Thanks for the suggestion.

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It's probably mounted as ro then, you'll need to mount -o rw or mount -o remount,rw

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It's probably mounted as ro then, you'll need to mount -o rw or mount -o remount,rw

Yeah, that's what I've got to figure out when I have time to pay some actual attention to what I'm doing. :-D

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I see AOU is working through this with you, but if you can't get it going, you could try booting an OSX image and work through it from there.

I haven't run a hackintosh since OSX Snow Leopard, but iAtkos builds were what I used to use.

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I haven't run a hackintosh since OSX Snow Leopard, but iAtkos builds were what I used to use.

A fine idea! Let's hope I can get the simple file-copy to work. If not I can set it up so I can boot from the drive.