Can only read RANDOM

new problem on my pc . unable to switch RANDOM reading to continuoous reading. as soon as i click a loop for alternate reading mode i get a pop-up telling me i'm about to delete such nbr of songs that were previously added to that list. Ipad is ok. issue only on pc.

Try running disk utility and perform a permissions. repair. I had the same trouble with iTunes6 and after 4 tries it finally started working again.

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I have an external hard drive, from Iomega. However, I cannot copy or save any file to it. On my PC it says that is possible to read and write in it, but in my Mac, it says I can only read. can somebody help me?

I have an external hard drive, from Iomega. that I can open and see my files. However, I cannot copy or save any file to it. On my PC I have it says that is possible to read and write in it, but in my Mac, it says I can only read. can somebody help me?
Also, Im a photographer, so I like to name a lot of files at the same time (used to do in on PC and it was very usefull.) cannot find out how to do it on my Mac. Really appretiate if some one can give me a solution! Thanx

Your drive is formatted with the NTFS file system. OS X can read but not write to the NTFS file system. There are third party drivers available that claim to add the ability to OS X to write to an NTFS partition. I have not tried them and don't know if they work.
The only file system that OS X and Windows can both write to natively is the FAT32 file system.

Is it possible for a mac to run across a Windows based server such as in a school, and still be able to access all networked folders? I have been told that macs can only read down a certain number of folders

Is it possible to run a mac on a windows based server? We have a server based on Windows 7 in our school, and our techies are reluctant to let me buy a mac as they say macs can only read a number of folders deep, which would preclude me from accessing shared folders on our servers. Is this true, and is there a way round this? I would eventually like to get a suite of macs, but because all our resources are on the server, I have to be able to access them.
Thanks for any help,
Mike

I have found that both Linux and Mac (unix) are capable of reading "deep" folders while win 32 will have issues, your it people are clearly wrong. I run a network with both win/mac. And as long as the win servers/pc's that have shares are set to allow apple file sharing in their folder properties. And the macs are set to allow smb there should absolutely no trouble with you accessing anything across the platforms, heck, from a Mac to a win pc on some occasions you don't even need to include a "domain" name to log on to, and you can create aliases and make your own shortcuts etc... So you don't have to manually connect each time you boot up etc... But that's all personal preferences I suppose.
All I can tell you is that, I do it on a daily basis managing a small business. So your answer is yes you can.

Iomega "You can only read" permissions issue

How
How do I change "Sharing & Permissions:" from "You can only read" to Read & Write on my backup Iomega like the rest of my mac?

Open the Disk Utility in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run the Repair Disk command on it. If the issue persists, add yourself in the Sharing & Permissions section.
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I can only read e-books on my laptop. How do I get them unto my e-reader? It has something to do with the Adobe ID.

Hello,
just now I downloaden an e-book from the library and I wanted to copy it to my e-reader. I needed an Adobe ID but I forgot my password (and the website to get a new password wasn't working) so I clicked on 'open without authorization' but now I can only read the book on my laptop and not copy it unto my e-reader. Anyone an idea how I can undo this? Because I did manage to retrieve a new password.
Thanks for your help!

It need to be removed from the computer you sold with it activated on. If you want to use that activation on a different computer. If you wiped that computer you need to contact Adobe this is a user forum users here do not have access to Adobe Activation servers and databases.

My external harddisk formatted in one iMac can only read in other iMac. How to make enable read

Why my external harddisk formated as R&W for one imac will remained for use in that imac only. When I bought a new imac the external hard disk end up can Read only. Shouldn't it remain the same as R&W? There is no way you can set back to R&W for my new imac. Why can't Apple make thing simple for us and let the complicated user do the complicated thing? Once formated it should be able to use for all PC and all Mac. How to reset without lossing all my files in the harddisk? I know the easiest way to reset is to reformat it and lose everything. Not user friendly isn't it?

Jimmykkk,
If you want assistance you need to quit the rant and state what you need. Also be specific, you don't mention anything about the old Mac, the kind of EHD, what it is used for etc....
If you want to share a EHD between a PC and Mac you will have many limitations, primarily the size of files you can store.

It can only read the enhanced portion of CDs

When ever I put in an enhanced CD (an album with extra media, like music videos, or web links) it only reads that part of it, not the actual music files. Is there a way I can set up in prefrences to access both the audio and multimedia?

It should display both the music and the enhanced media files, but if you have your setting in sys prefs like this
it will work as you want it to.

Can Only Read Certain Discs

I don't use discs very often, but recently I noticed that my macbook pro is unable to read a lot of my discs. The machine will accept the disc, whirr for a while, then eject it without seeming to recognize it. This is especially confusing as I know it was able to read some of these specific discs last year.
After some experimentation I realized that the discs that DO work seem to have some of the center area filled in with extra data storage. After looking up the fact that the data on a disc starts at the center, the issue becomes clear: the machine tries to start reading at this smaller diameter and gives up without checking further out.
Is my optical drive broken or is this a problem with the OS?

Aidinthel wrote:
I don't use discs very often, but recently I noticed that my macbook pro is unable to read a lot of my discs. The machine will accept the disc, whirr for a while, then eject it without seeming to recognize it. This is especially confusing as I know it was able to read some of these specific discs last year.
After some experimentation I realized that the discs that DO work seem to have some of the center area filled in with extra data storage.
There is no "extra data storage". It's just a label.
Basically, your drive detects disc insertion, attempts to read the disc, and doesn't get a useful result. It concludes that the disc is damaged or incompatible and it spits it out. Assuming that these discs are clean and undamaged (that includes the label side), here's what could be going on
(1) With age, the drive's laser beam can no longer focus very tightly. It can still read some discs, but fails with others. Unfortunately, you cannot check this unless you're technically inclined and have an oscilloscope. If your drive is 5 years or older, this is a distinct possibility.
(2) Dust or other particles can settle on the drive's lens; this scatters the laser beam, with the same effect as in (1). You cannot check this with the naked eye, but you can try to fix it. There are special cleaning discs designed for this purpose. I cannot recommend any brand or model, but you can find them in them in the usual places (electronics stores, Amazon, etc). Make sure to read reviews of other users before buying and using such a disc.
(3) Manufactured optical discs usually have a metal reflecting layer. When correctly manufactured, such a disc lasts a long time. But recordable media (CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R, etc) employ a dye, which, even when new, has less contrast between 'pits' and 'lands'. In time, this contrast fades even more, so eventually the disc becomes unreadable and the data is lost. There can be considerable variation in the durability of recordable media. Some cheap, low quality discs can become unreadable even within a year.
So, first check your media. Are the unreadable discs factory-made or recordable media? If the drive has problems with factory-made discs, first, make sure that the discs are good (other drives can read them); if they are, try cleaning your drive. If cleaning your drive hasn't worked, then it may be time to replace it with a new drive.

I have partitions in my external hard drive, and it was working fine. but not the oy, I have partitions in my external hard drive, and it was working fine. but not the other partition says you can only read. how to solve it ? help me

Mu external hard disk partition is not working. In get info it says that "hou can read only" bow can I fix this?

Read this:
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Can only read external hard drive, not write to

Hi
I have a Mac Book Pro and a 60GB external Hard Drive which I use to transfer files between my Win PC (!!) and my Mac. transferring files from PC to Mac is fine using the HDD but when I try to copy files from my Mac to the HDD it says I cannot write to the drive as it is read only. How do i make it writable as well as readable. Its formatted as Windows NT Filesystem if that helps.

mp_photo wrote:
Its formatted as Windows NT Filesystem if that helps.
Hi,
that is the culprit.
Mac OSX is only capable of reading from NTFS drives but can not write to them.
Possible solutions:
Reformat the external drive to FAT32 (using Disk Utility and 'MS-DOS'),
but be aware of the the size limit of 4GB for a single file
use MacFuse: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
Caution: reformatting the drive will delete all files on it, so make a backup before.
Regards
Stefan

I can only read on my external usb hardrive

Hello There,
I could need some help
When I plug my "Samsung SP1604N Media Mass-Storage-Device" to my (brand new :-)) iBook, i'm only "allowed" to read but not to write on the single volume, that is formatted in Windows NTFS format.
First, I thought I can't plug windows formatted devices to a mac in general, but a friend's hdd worked pretty well.. it's formatted in NTFS too.
So I tried to plug my external hdd to a windows xp pc and it worked normal.
I'm not very good in those "things", so I tried to download some drivers, but it didn't work. Actually it's maybe not a driver thing, but as is said I'm an amateur.
so please, dear mac-comunity, tell me the big truth about my "disturbed" hardrive. Is there sth i can do about it?
Thanx in advance
Dan
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi Dan,
Welcome to the Discussions.
NTFS disks are read only on a Mac. There's no driver available that will allow you to write to one that's connected directly to your Mac. Your friends may be formatted FAT32, which a Mac can read and write to. You could format yours FAT32 and use it on both platforms. Use your Mac to format if (MS-DOS with Disk Utility) as it has no size limits on formatting FAT32 disks.
John

"You can only read" when Read & Write assigned

The "Backups.backupdb" automatically created on my external hard drive for Time Machine is the folder in question.
I am changing the icons on my EHD folders and it has worked fine for every other folder, because I created them myself of course.
There is no problem with the Time Machine folder and all my backups are perfectly accessible and everything.
All I want to be able to do is change the icon from the blue folder but I have this problem that I can read only even after I've assigned read and write permissions to myself :/
Can anybody help?

Never log in as root. Do not enable it. There's nothing you can't do from the Terminal with admin rights.
Open the Terminal. Enter the following text, or copy/paste it from here:
sudo rm -R
Do not press enter yet. Put a space after the -R, then drag and drop the folder into the Terminal window. It's path and name will be added to the end of your command. Now press enter. Terminal will ask for your admin password. Type it in and press enter. The folder should be removed.

I loaded 3 email accounts into my new ipad2 but can only read the 1st one.

And...I can't find All Mail...how come?

I found out the reason on my own.The reason why I couldn't read the other two email accounts was because my ram memory was over loaded. To shut off unused apps. Double tap the home button. See the apps on the bottom of the screen. Hit the little red minus signs in the icons to remove these apps from ram. After removing all of them, the mail started working right. These ipads only have a half a gig of ram...which isn't much.

SocketChannel - problem. Can only read once.

Hi!
I'm having some trouble with my accepted SocketChannels from a ServerSocketChannel. The first transmission from the remote host after it has been accept()'ed (I'm using telnet on another mashine to test it) works just fine. But that's it, then I get no more information from the remote host, no matter how much I try.
I find this very strange, and completely without any reason.
I've found out that my connection never causes selector.selectNow() to return > 0 after the first transmission, unless there's some other activity but my connection I described above. It doesn't even detect when I close the connection from my telnet-client.
These three methods are the only one who actually handles ServerSocketChannel and SocketChannel, feel free to help me out =]
Thanx in advance
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public void run()
    try
      while (true)
        if (selector.selectNow() > 0)
          Set selection = selector.selectedKeys();
          Iterator selectedkeys = selection.iterator();
          while (selectedkeys.hasNext())
            SelectionKey key = (SelectionKey)selectedkeys.next();
            try
              if (key.isReadable())
                read(key);
              else if (key.isConnectable())
                finishconnect(key);
              else if (key.isAcceptable())
                accept(key);
            catch (CancelledKeyException e)
              System.out.println("SelectionKey has been cancelled:");
              e.printStackTrace(System.out);
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        {           // a while to let the processor get some rest =]
          try
            Thread.sleep(50);
          catch (InterruptedException ignore) { }
    catch (ClosedSelectorException e)
      System.out.println("Selector has been closed:");
      e.printStackTrace(System.out);
      System.exit(1);
    catch (Exception e)
      System.out.println("An unforseen error has occurred:");
      e.printStackTrace(System.out);
      System.exit(1);
   * Reads from the socket, and puts it in a ByteBuffer.
   * @param key The selected key from the selector.
private void read(SelectionKey key)
    try
      SocketChannel socket = (SocketChannel)key.channel();
      Connection conn = (Connection)key.attachment();
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      while ((bytes_read = socket.read(buffer)) > 0)
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          socket.close();
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      e.printStackTrace(System.out);
   * Accepts, and handles incoming sockets from the ServerSocketChannel.
   * @param key The selected key from the selector.
private void accept(SelectionKey key)
    try
      ServerSocketChannel server = (ServerSocketChannel)key.channel();
      SocketChannel socket = server.accept();
      if (socket != null)
        socket.configureBlocking(false);
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        int mode = ssc.acceptConnection();
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}

It's opened in the constructor:
   * ConnectionManager - constructor.
   * Opens a selector and starts the thread for this object.
private ConnectionManager()
    try
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    catch (IOException e)
      System.out.println("Error occurred while opening selector: " + e);
      System.exit(1);
    new Thread(this).start();
}

I can only read on my flash drive and it won't let me format it. Please help!

I'm frustrated.

Some flash drives have a failure mode in which they are irreversibly write-locked by the internal controller when it detects a write error. If the drive doesn't have a write-lock switch (most do not) and you can't erase it in Disk Utility, that's almost certainly what has happened. To be sure, test it with another computer, if possible.

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