- Joined
- Mar 6, 2011
- Messages
- 6
- Motherboard
- i7MacPoor
- CPU
- i7-3770
- Graphics
- Integrated
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
System:
GA-H77N-WIFI
i7-3770
This system has successfully run several versions of MacOS. I started the upgrade to High Sierra yesterday and am still plugging away at this. I successfully have High Sierra running on the hardware but my external drives are read-only. They are not NTFS formatted, they are HFS+ (Mac OS Extended, Journaled). One drive is my TimeMachine backup (attached 1TB 2.5" USB 3.0 drive) and one is my 8-Bay Drobo (connected over firewire 800). I can read the data on both devices fine, even restored my user profile from the TM backup drive. I don't have write access to either. If I get info on each drive and go to change permissions, I'm already listed as r+w. If I try to add myself, I can't. That tells me it's pulling the proper UUID. The box for 'ignore ownership' is checked but the first user in the list is 'fetching...' and can't be deleted. I've rebooted to the install USB to run disk utility and fix permissions on both drives, but all checks out fine. If at this point I'm better off wiping and reinstalling and NOT migrating, but instead re-installing all of my apps, that's fine. But I would like to know if there's something else I can do to fix permissions first. TIA!
GA-H77N-WIFI
i7-3770
This system has successfully run several versions of MacOS. I started the upgrade to High Sierra yesterday and am still plugging away at this. I successfully have High Sierra running on the hardware but my external drives are read-only. They are not NTFS formatted, they are HFS+ (Mac OS Extended, Journaled). One drive is my TimeMachine backup (attached 1TB 2.5" USB 3.0 drive) and one is my 8-Bay Drobo (connected over firewire 800). I can read the data on both devices fine, even restored my user profile from the TM backup drive. I don't have write access to either. If I get info on each drive and go to change permissions, I'm already listed as r+w. If I try to add myself, I can't. That tells me it's pulling the proper UUID. The box for 'ignore ownership' is checked but the first user in the list is 'fetching...' and can't be deleted. I've rebooted to the install USB to run disk utility and fix permissions on both drives, but all checks out fine. If at this point I'm better off wiping and reinstalling and NOT migrating, but instead re-installing all of my apps, that's fine. But I would like to know if there's something else I can do to fix permissions first. TIA!