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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!

[–] • 2 pts

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 😉