HELP ! WD My book has a padlock icon!

Raymond Lin · 4 Aug 2010 at 00:19

I am using Mac OSX and all of the sudden the drive is locked !!! (on the actual enclosure, the light is lit) How do I unlock it? Its not a password lock but i can't write files to it?

I googled and i found something to do with running terminal commands?

I cut and pasted this and it did nothing

PHP:

sudo chflags 0 /volumes/*
 
 sudo chmod a+rx /volumes/*

All my photos are on there (I have backup), but my LR catalogue is in there, and so is the wedding i spent a week processing!

I can access it, i can see the files, i can't however do anything to it ! not even copy a single jpeg into it. If it try, it just hangs.

Senilex · 4 Aug 2010 at 10:15

It's a Mac it should just work, but in any case, try this.

Code:

sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"drivename"

Obviously replacing "drivename" with the hdd name.

Marvin · 4 Aug 2010 at 10:36

Senilex said:
It's a Mac it should just work, but in any case, try this.

Is that a dig?

Senilex · 4 Aug 2010 at 11:04

Raymond Lin · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:04

Its not an OS permission thing, as I can read it, and under ger info it says i can't write to it too, but i just can't.

matthab · 4 Aug 2010 at 14:14

put it into a windows machine and see if that can access it. Im not a MAC expert but maybe some software on the HD has kicked in.

Just a wild guess.

Senilex · 4 Aug 2010 at 17:21

What file system is the external using os x extended?

g0th2000 · 4 Aug 2010 at 18:15

Probably worth plugging it into a windows machine and doing a health check on it (don't know if there's a MAC version of the WD tools) - my old My Book kept going 'read only' shortly before it failed completely

whitecrook · 4 Aug 2010 at 18:24

at the terminal do

Code:

ls -l /volumes/

and do

Code:

mount

and post back the output
also if you click the icon and pres CMD+I does it have locked?