How do you unlock an External drive?

I've used this drive on my macbook pro and now want to use it on my new imac.
I can open previous saved stuff on it and work on it but not re save what I've done.
The icon does not have a locked symbol on it and can access permissions from "get info".

oops...can't access permissions from get info

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