Cannot copy external hard disk as its asking for permissions

Not sure why my settings have changed, but now every time I copy data onto my external drive main directory it asks for my password. I checked and seems that my current user is read and write setting (prssing command i.) I also notice that on a few folders I can copy directly without the prompt.
How do I set it so that it no longer asks me this? I have automatic backup software which now doesn't work due to this issue.

Hi JPOlas,
Do you attempt to backup SQL Server to a network shared folder? If that is the case, please make sure that you have configured with the steps below before backup:
• Create a network share from the remote server.
• Provide Full privilege for the SQL Server account to read and write data to the share. For more information:
Configuring SQL Server service account security for network resources access.
In addition, please note that the time of SQL Server backup is directly proportional to network bandwidth. And the increased I/O activity has the potential for a negative impact on performance and your system availability.
There are other ways you can workaround this issue, please take a look at this article on
How to Backup SQL Server to a Network Shared Folder.
Best Regards,
Stephanie Lv

Similar Messages

HT201269 I am trying to save memory on my iPhone 4S/ ios6. Can I back up all photos to icloud and the external hard disk I normally use for photos? If I then delete photos from the iPhone do the get deleted on iCloud?

I am trying to save memory on my iPhone 4S/ ios6.
1) Can I back up all photos to icloud and the external hard disk I normally use for photos? If I then delete photos from the iPhone do the get deleted on iCloud?
2) Can I back up the newsstand to iCloud and save memory on the iPhone?
3) Can I back up the bookshelf to icloud and save memory on the iPhone?

1. What format is the external drive? It sounds like it's ina format that Macs can't write to. Is it a NAS or NTFS?
2. Easiest thing: just move your iPhoto Library to the external
Make sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
Regards
TD

How to reinitialize an external hard disk drive which serves for Time Machine?

How to reinitialize an external hard disk drive which serves for Time Machine?
Thanks for your answer.

Everything you need to know about initializing (formatting) is here.
http://pondini.org/OSX/DU1.html
Lots of useful information on TM is here in the same place.
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

Cannot access external hard disk

I keep all my data in Segate external hard disk. Today I wanted to set up windows using Boot camp. The window installed but at the end it froze. By mistake I kept the External hard disk connected to my Macbook Pro. When I rebooted I cannot find the my external hard disk. I tried to access through Mac partiton but it displays waring.
Saying I need to Initialize the external hard disk. That mean I will end up with erased hard disk which is not i want. Is there any option. ?
It looks like Mac OS cant recognise the drive at all. When I open the Disk Uitiluty I can see the drive.
Any ideas guys

Try opening Disk Utility and try repairing the disk. It might hopefully be able to repair it. Otherwise you're probably looking at needing a tool like DiskWarrior 4…
http://www.alsoft.com/

Mac cannot detect external hard disk

My mac is running oin OSX 10.8.5. It cannot detect a hard disk that was originally detected before. This happened after I took out the hard disk a previous I used it without ejecting it properly. thanks!

Have you tested that the MBP USB ports are working?
Have you tried different cables?
Does the HDD work on other macs.
Does the drive appear in Disk Utility?
Have you tried the bare HDD in another enclosure?
Ciao.

External Hard disk has space problem for Time Machine

Im not sure this is the right place to post this, but I've just got OSX.5 so Time Machine is new to me. I've got a 500Gb Firewire Lacie Drive which I now have, as far as I can see, about 110GB of stuff in. I have a bout 300Gb to back up. Currently my mac can only see 260GB free, which means theres about 150GB that isnt explained. I have run Disk Inventory, which shows the dot files on the drive. There seem to be hardly any. Is there anything else that could be taking up such a large amount of disk space? Theres one movie file of 28GB that I cannot move off the drive.

Tim Whelan2 wrote:
Im not sure this is the right place to post this, but I've just got OSX.5 so Time Machine is new to me. I've got a 500Gb Firewire Lacie Drive which I now have, as far as I can see, about 110GB of stuff in.
Let's see what Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder) says. When it starts, click the top line for your drive in the sidebar (should have size and make), then the Partition tab. Towards the bottom is a *Total Capacity* line, followed by two different numbers: one in GB, the other in bytes. The first will be about 465 GB, the second roughly 500 billion. This is the different way of counting: decimal vs. binary.
There's also a *Partition Map Scheme* line. This should be followed by GUID or +Apple Partition Map.+ If your drive isn't one of those, you're going to have a problem using it with Time Machine. Report back what this says.
In the center part of the display is a diagram showing all the partitions currently on the disk. Each is represented by a box, with a name in the center, and the amount used represented by light blue shading.
If there's only one partition, it's total size and amount available will be in the center, shown in GB.
If there are 2 or more, click each one in turn to see it's sizes. The Total of the sizes should be almost the same as the total at the bottom (the Partition Map takes a bit of space).
It sounds like you may have 2 partitions, one for TM backups, one for your "other stuff". If so, each partition is treated separately for most purposes: there should be two icons on your desktop and/or Finder sidebar, for example.
Report back what you find, and whether it makes sense to you or not. Then we can figure out what's going on and what you need to do.
But note this: This drive is a bit small to use with Time Machine. TM works best if it has 2-3 times the space of what it's backing-up, so it can keep a few months of your backups. See item #1 of the Frequently Asked Questions post at the top of this forum.
Even if you could use the entire 465 GB or so, that's less than twice the 300 gb you want to back up. That would work, for a while, but depending on how you use your Mac, TM may not be able to keep your backups for very long.

Mountain lion ejects external hard disks

After upgrading to Mountainlion (March 5, 2013), my LaCie external hard disk (500 GB, used for TimeMachine) was spontaneously and improperly ejected, presumably by the OS.
(1) The disk had worked without problems under OS 10.7.
(2) The disk mounts properly on an older Mac (OS 10.3.2).
(3) The disk would not mount on a newer Mac also running OS 10.8.2.
I am currently reparing the disk using Disk Utility on the old Mac, but I hesitate to attempt mounting it again on my iMac (June 2008) running OS 10.8.3. Can anyone shed light on this problem? I know I am not the only one with this difficulty, so is Apple doing something about it?

It is very probably dying (I just had to replace a Lacie disk 250GB form 2008).
This disk has originally been formatted on the 10.3 and then never again?
You can format it again on 10.8, but you will loose the TM backup, so if you do that you have to make a new TM on another disk.
I would no longer trust this disk, and buy another (5 years is not bad at all). Take all you want to preserve off the Lacie on the old machine and copy it to the ML machine.

External hard disk problem?

I just purchased an external hard disk(packard bell store & save 3500), it said on the net that you could use it with MAC OS X. But any how, when I put in the installation cd, nothing happens. When I then connect the external hard disk with its USB stick the computer detects the disk, but I can't store anything on it. What is wrong? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Best Regards
Mark

but I'm not sure how to do the things you propose. Can't seem to find any reparation action?
Sorry. Let me try again.
1. Plug in and turn on the external hard drive
2. Open Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
3. Select your external hard drive from the list at left. Make sure you select the actual hard drive, not the volume listed under the hard drive.
4. The main pane should have five tabs (more or less) the middle of which should be labelled "Partition". Select it. Choose the desired partitioning scheme (1 partition if you plan to only use the hard drive with a Mac, and don't plan to use it with Time Machine or SuperDuper!; I recommend more than one partition otherwise) and choose a format for each partition. Use "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" for partitions that you only want to use with Macs, and use MS-DOS for partitions that you want to be able to use on Windows machines. Also make sure that any MS-DOS partition that you want to use with a Windows machine is one of the first three partitions.
5. Use the "Options..." button to ensure the hard drive will be partitioned with the GUID partition scheme, appropriate for booting an Intel Mac.
6. Click the "Apply" button to do the partitioning. I think you will be informed that this will erase all data on the drive and prompted to continue or cancel.
If those instructions don't help, then there is probably something I'm not understanding. Sorry again. In step 4, you could alternatively choose the "Erase" tab. This should give you the opportunity to reformat the entire hard drive to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" but will not give you the opportunity to choose a GUID partitioning scheme, or more than one partition.

Upgraded to 10.10.3, the external hard disk keep working and spinning after I ejected successfully, and the HHD keep lights up, feel unsafe to unplug it

I tried on two macbook air, same situation.
This never happen on 10.10.2 or previous version. (The HDD light will off and it will stop running after I ejected before.)
I feel unsafe to unplug the external hard disk when its still light up and running.
I am using Macbook book air 2012 and 2013 with seagate backup plus....
Anyone have same problem? how to fix it?
or its ok to unplug the HDD while the HDD light is still on and running?
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

I have a G-Tech external hard drive that continues to spin after I have unmounted it and if I disconnect it while it is spinning it makes a very nasty sounding clunk noise. In my case it started doing this after I enabled FileVault a couple of years ago. I have found that if I unmount it and then wait 6 minutes it will stop spinning. It is inconvenient but I only use it once a week and the clunk sound is scary enough that I put up with the wait.

Encryption of Time Machine backup on an external hard disk

I use an external hard disk (not Time Capsule) for my Time Machine backup. How can I encrypt this external hard disk. I didn't find such a function in the Mac OS. Thanks a lot for any hint.

Click here and follow the instructions. The image's contents can't be accessed without the password, but the image file can still be deleted.
(56647)

Time Machine to back up external hard disk

Hi,
I 'm going to add an external hard disk to my iMac for storing music files and another one as backup. Not sure if Time Machine is possible to do auto back up for the external harddisk rather than the one built inside the iMac?

provided the external is formatted mac os extended, TM will back it up along with the internal drive.

I cant able to copy my files from my macbook to external hard disk,its showing "read-only",but i can able to transfer files in windows os,why cant i able to do tht in here?

i cant able to copy my files from my macbook to external hard disk,its showing "read-only",but i can able to transfer files in windows os,why cant i able to do tht in here?

to frederic1943
Its in NTFS Format...and i hav downloaded the file NTFS-3G,but still i dont know wht to do with that.will u pls help me here.

Cannot copy files from external hard disks

This is happening often enough to be really painful:
I insert a hard disk. I browse the files on it. I open a new window of Finder and drag some files from the external hard disk into my own machine (OSX Leopard 10.5.5). It croaks, telling me some "permissions" are wrong (Error -36).
Browsing Google and Macosxhints and all of that, the suggestions indicate that I should "repair permissions", "repair disk", and reboot. All done. Still doesnt work.
What now? I never had this problem with Windows. What's with this permissions drivel on OSX and how can I fix it once and for all? I only use my machine to browse on Firefox/Safari, talk with Skype, edit with Coda/Transmit, and then Office documents. Which of these tools changes these mysterious permissions so that I have to keep "repairing" again and again???
Thanks for any pointers or advice!

I am on shaky ground here because I am totally ignorant about about Windoze and MS-DOS. What I can tell you, though, is that the Unix underpinning of Mac OS X is heavily reliant on the concept of "ownership" which, apart from other factors, has security implications. FAT32 has absolutely no concept of file ownership. (That's why Microsoft encourages everyone to use NTFS instead - mainly for the security implications).
You need advice - Sorry! - from someone more knowledgeable than me as to how to change both the format (to Mac OS Extended, Journaled) and the Partition Scheme (to GUID) *+while preserving your data+*. I presume that you would need to find a temporary home for that data, after which altering the drive's structures would take only a moment - but as to how to then correctly replace the data onto that drive I would prefer not to say. I would guess that simply transferring the data back onto the drive now with a 'Mac-appropriate' structure would suffice - but PLEASE do not entrust your data to my 'guess'.
Wait patiently for someone who knows how to advise you to respond in this thread, or post again with a possibly more descriptive/pertinent title.
Sorry not to have been of any help.
Andreas

I can't copy my itunes library to an external hard disk drive!!

this is my first time at the forum and i dont find a better way to ask, i want to copy my itunes library to an external hard disk drive for have a back up, but when i try to copy it it appears this message "the item "itunes music" has 1 or more items that are in use and cannot be modified", i dont know why, then i search for help in apple support and this article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751, but i do what it says and i still having my problem, i can't copy my music, that message keep's appearing and it dont let me copy my music.

forget it i discover my problem, this message gives u 2 option stop or continue i just click continue and it get copied, i think this is normal but like this is my fisrt time i dot this i get confused, i think i still used to windows, i cant believe because i have a ear with this computer. well anything is a good experience.

HT202796 I can not copy, modify, any file from my Mac to external hard disk, of the seagate brand (fast HDD Portable Drive) I don´t know if I need some software to copy and modify files in my hard disk external ? Could you help me please?

Hello I have a iMac with 3.4 GHZ intel core I7, memory 16 GB 1333 MHZ DDR3, and OS X 10.9.4 Software.
I have problems when I try to copy or modify any file from my MAC to MY PORTABLE DRIVE/DISQUE (external hard disk).
my external hard disk have the next features:
brand: Seagate
4TB
I do not know if I need some software such as: paragon or I need to configure my MAC,
Please help me..
Thanks a lot

Click on it, choose Get Info from the File menu, and check the format.
If it's formatted as NTFS, reformat it as MS-DOS, exFAT, or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as desired, or install software such as Paragon NTFS on the computer.
If it's formatted as FAT32 or exFAT, use the Disk Utility's Repair Disk command on it; this may also happen for a flash drive which is about to fail.
If it's formatted as Mac OS Extended, click Authenticate and provide your administrator password, or change the permissions on that specific folder in its Get Info window.
(110769)

Cannot copy external hard disk as its asking for permissions

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for