[Avid-L2] [OT] Mavericks Madness [1 Attachment]

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