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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Re: [Avid-L2] [OT] Mavericks Madness

I only pointed it out as I do the sand thing and once spent two whole days trying to fix a drive when I had a drawer full of spare ones. I'm glad it's fixed though :)

On 9 May, 2014, at 8:08 am, John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:

I just pointed it out to let you know permissions were not the problem, as they were disabled.

Kudos to Mark...I've actually never had a thumb drive with a write protect switch..would never have thought of that.

On Thursday, May 8, 2014, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@contactben.com> wrote:

On May 8, 2014, at 5:12 PM, John Pale <pale.edit@gmail.com> wrote:

You have "ignore ownership" checked, which means permissions are disabled.

Hi John,
I thought that would solve the issue, initially.

Actually, Mark Spano was the winner of this round (see my earlier post).
I forgot there was a write-protect switch on the thumb drive and I must have
flipped it on without realizing it.

Cheers,

B

On Thursday, May 8, 2014, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@contactben.com> wrote:

Hi gang,

I have a thumb drive that is formatted as
Mac OS Extended.

All worked with this little guy (for years) until . . .

About a week ago I used it to shuttle some QT files between my laptop (10.8.5)
and a client's iMac (Mavericks; not sure what build).

Now when I mount the thumb drive on my laptop, the "everyone" permissions

are set to "Read Only." I can unlock it, but I can *not* open the little pull-down
menu to select Read/Write (see attached pic or at this link: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=30k64vb&s=8#.U2v-W61dXuU/).

I copied the files off this drive with the thought of reformatting it.
Doh! . . . I can't do that either.

Any thoughts on solving this annoyance, besides just buying a new thumb drive?

Cheers,

Benjamin
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