HD access

goggleyedsalmon

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I am just about to change the HD in my macbook and I want to take the old HD out and put it in a caddy so I can retrieve my data once I've got the new HD up and running.

How do I avoid having problems with access permissions on the old HD in a USB caddy?

Thanks
 
I don't have filevault on.

When I try to access the old HD in the USB caddy, will it ask me for my password from my old account or just say 'The folder “xxxxx” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.'? Or neither?

Thanks for the quick answer
 
normally it should just open in a finder window and show you the HD contents.
You should have no problems what so ever, just as djackmac stated in a previous post.
 
I don't have filevault on.

When I try to access the old HD in the USB caddy, will it ask me for my password from my old account or just say 'The folder “xxxxx” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents.'? Or neither?

That would indicate that you do have filevault on. Don't you know what your password is or is this not even your drive? Other than that click on the drive and press command+i and under sharing and permissions, select "ignore permissions on this volume". But as mentioned earlier, this won't do a thing if filevault is turned on. Basically if filevault is enabled and you don't know the password, you'll never see the data.
 
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