Changing external hardrive permissions.

i recently had to erase my harddrive and restore from a time machine back up. however, once mountain lion was reinstalled i did not restore right away and instead created a new user account on my harddrive. let's call this account "p". i then i used migration assistant to restore to my original system, account "x". my computer now has both accounts on it and my external harddrive is now linked to account "p". when i am using account "x" everything on my external is listed as "read only". if i use account "p", the account that i don't want to use, that has none of my applications on it, and created by mistake, everything is "read & write". how can i fix this?! thank you!

When logged in as x, select the external drive, choose Get Info from the FIle menu, and either give yourself write access to the drive or set it to ignore ownership.
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The problem: Lately when I try the copy and paste operation it gets started then inevitable halts with the message, "The operation can't be completed because you don't have permission to access "Keychain Access.app".
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Chiefsfan212006 wrote:
Back in May, I took my external hardrive to my University before I graduated and I could not insert some video files (using another computer, which was a Mac.) Our school's tech expert said it was because my external hardrive is not applicable with Macs. Long story short, I showed him I can do it on my MacBook Pro, then I had to save my video files on a flash drive instead. Anyway.
I meant to also say that your school's tech expert does not appear to be much of an expert.

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nellydee wrote:
Having moved my Itunes folder to a new external hardrive and resetting where it is in preferences
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It depends on how you're backing up.
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Slightly more complex: Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically.
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Ok, so I'm a little computer challenged and probably not nearly as knowledgeable as most of the people here. Anyway, I'm sorry if my question sounds stupid! I bought a 250GB external hardrive today to back up all my music and pictures. When I plugged it in, it automaticaly opened Time Machine and asked if I wanted to backup my computer on it, so I hit yes. Now, my question is, if I unplug it from my computer, will it rebackup everything again when I plug it back in? I also looked around in it and was unable to find all my music and pictures so I copied all that onto the external hardrive again. This is probably a really stupid question, but I'm paranoid! Thanks!

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I also looked around in it and was unable to find all my music and pictures so I copied all that onto the external hardrive again. This is probably a really stupid question, but I'm paranoid! Thanks!
Were you using Finder to look around the drive or did you use the Time Machine program?
If you gave Time Machine enough time to actually do the backup, and left it on for a couple of hours, you should be able to see several restore times that you can go back to. To see music files - launch iTunes first, then Time Machine. To see iPhoto picture library files - launch iPhoto first, then Time Machine. To see emails - launch Mail first, then Time Machine.
For other files in folders or on your desktop you just go to the folder where the file used to be, and then launch Time Machine. You can also get back different versions of the same file, based on when it was re-added to the Time Machine backup. Everytime a file changes, Time Machine makes another copy of it.
Time Machine Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWdkfCwd4qU&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n055CqFnjyo
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofWnyUHwoYI&NR=1

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I have an external hardrive (because all my music and photos are causing my computer to be very slow), so I was looking to transfer all of my music (which is in my iTunes library) to the external drive.
However, when move files from my folder to the external drive, and then attempt to play the songs in my Library, it claims "the file cannot be found" (as i assume it is because i moved it).
Is there anyway I can transfer ALL of my music in my iTunes library, to the external drive, witout having to go through and then 'FIND the location' of each individual file after transfering.
Help.

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