External Firewire Drive File And Folder Permissions Not Working Under Tiger

swebsurf

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Hi,

I thought this had worked in the past, but maybe it was just the local hard drive. I'm running Tiger (10.4.2) and permissions don't appear to be working on externally attached firewire hard drives. Is this a 'feature'? I did a repair on my local hard drive permissions with no problems, but that button is not available for the external drives. I have 3 of them: Lacie, Western Digital, and one other (from OWA) whose brand I can't remember (Fantom, maybe?)

thanks,

Scott
 
I'm not sure what you mean by ownership not working on external drives.

But, you can Get Info for each external drive, and in Ownership & Permissions section, you can check the box 'Ignore ownership on this volume', which should help you.
 
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