I have an old external HD that was originally formatted for Mac. The power adapter failed and I'm trying to get the files off now. I cannot get into some of my folders because of permissions. Is there a way for me to get through this? Unfortunately I don't have a Mac anymore.
Thank you!
See if you can try changing the ownership of the drive:
sudo chown -R username:username /media/mount-point(drive name)
Edit: if you are having a Read Only issue reference this post: external hard disk READ ONLY
Are you using command line or a file manager ? The root user should be able to read everything, unless you did something rather special on the MAC with your folders.
Try and mount the disk and access it as root. Assuming the disk is /dev/sdb;
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
cd /mnt
Now try and access the folders;
sudo ls -la <folder>
Also, post a listing here of the attributes of the problem folders;
ls -la
post the results.
Ubuntu can't read Mac file systems. You'll need to connect the external drive to a Mac, and then copy off the files to another external hard disk (formatted NTFS or FAT (if your files are <2G)) or USB flash drive (formatted FAT).
Cheers, Al
