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Fix permissions on Mac OS X External Disk used by Time Machine?
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Mar 15, 20266363 viewsConfidence Score0%
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The Short Version: After using an external disk as a Time Machine target, disk permissions are forever and always utterly ignored which causes huge problems when said disk is supposed to share publicly and privately accessible files/folders over the local network. Said disk is no longer used for Ti…
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Old unanswered qn, needs attention Why not just recreate the partition using Disk Utility, backing up anything you want to keep on the disk? If you really want to preserve the disk, try , where $EXTVOL is the path to the volume.
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