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Hi,
It has just taken me the best part of 5 days to figure this out.
My situation is this. I have a new network drive and use it with a Mac. I have been trying to copy over my old hard disk contents over to the network drive, but have been caught out with failed copies. This unfortunately (on a Western Digital My Book Live Duo), sets drive permissions which don't allow you to delete or open the affected folder, and grays it out. You can't change the permissions via the Mac either, to allow you access.
I had been formatting the drive, after virtually a days continuous copy, and starting again, which you can imagine, was irksome to say the least.
Then, today, it struck me.
With your Western Digital Drive as above, log onto your wd2go account on the Mac. Because you are not using Mac permissions (AFP) at that point, but accessing via the net, you are able to delete and manipulate the one affected folder without having to format and start again.
I should imagine this would work with any brand of drive accessing over the internet. Try it. It worked for me.
Hope this helps someone.
Neil
It has just taken me the best part of 5 days to figure this out.
My situation is this. I have a new network drive and use it with a Mac. I have been trying to copy over my old hard disk contents over to the network drive, but have been caught out with failed copies. This unfortunately (on a Western Digital My Book Live Duo), sets drive permissions which don't allow you to delete or open the affected folder, and grays it out. You can't change the permissions via the Mac either, to allow you access.
I had been formatting the drive, after virtually a days continuous copy, and starting again, which you can imagine, was irksome to say the least.
Then, today, it struck me.
With your Western Digital Drive as above, log onto your wd2go account on the Mac. Because you are not using Mac permissions (AFP) at that point, but accessing via the net, you are able to delete and manipulate the one affected folder without having to format and start again.
I should imagine this would work with any brand of drive accessing over the internet. Try it. It worked for me.
Hope this helps someone.
Neil
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Hi,
It has just taken me the best part of 5 days to figure this out.
My situation is this. I have a new network drive and use it with a Mac. I have been trying to copy over my old hard disk contents over to the network drive, but have been caught out with failed copies. This unfortunately (on a Western Digital My Book Live Duo), sets drive permissions which don't allow you to delete or open the affected folder, and grays it out. You can't change the permissions via the Mac either, to allow you access.
I had been formatting the drive, after virtually a days continuous copy, and starting again, which you can imagine, was irksome to say the least.
Then, today, it struck me.
With your Western Digital Drive as above, log onto your wd2go account on the Mac. Because you are not using Mac permissions (AFP) at that point, but accessing via the net, you are able to delete and manipulate the one affected folder without having to format and start again.
I should imagine this would work with any brand of drive accessing over the internet. Try it. It worked for me.
Hope this helps someone.
Neil
It has just taken me the best part of 5 days to figure this out.
My situation is this. I have a new network drive and use it with a Mac. I have been trying to copy over my old hard disk contents over to the network drive, but have been caught out with failed copies. This unfortunately (on a Western Digital My Book Live Duo), sets drive permissions which don't allow you to delete or open the affected folder, and grays it out. You can't change the permissions via the Mac either, to allow you access.
I had been formatting the drive, after virtually a days continuous copy, and starting again, which you can imagine, was irksome to say the least.
Then, today, it struck me.
With your Western Digital Drive as above, log onto your wd2go account on the Mac. Because you are not using Mac permissions (AFP) at that point, but accessing via the net, you are able to delete and manipulate the one affected folder without having to format and start again.
I should imagine this would work with any brand of drive accessing over the internet. Try it. It worked for me.
Hope this helps someone.
Neil