Unable to Move Files

PDD

Hi Folks,

I am trying to move files from my Mac Mini HDD to a external USB2 NTFS formatted HDD. The files are for a virtual machine as its getting a little bit too big, the virtual machine files themselves have moved fine but some files in the VMSharedFolder are being uncooperative.

When moving/copying the files the error message I get is 'This operation cannot be completed as you do not have sufficient privlidges for some of the items'. I have made sure that my user, admin and everyhone has read write privlidges and applied these privlidges recursively through the folders via the get info dialogue. I have also run the following command to ensure that no files are locked

sudo chflags -R nouchg /VirtualMachines

The command runs fine but seems to make no differnece what so ever. Unfortunately this is everything I know and cannot think of a reason why file esp HFS+ files would be giving me this problem. Any help or suggestions very welcome.

Thanks,

Dave

ethernet

PDD wrote: »

I am trying to move files from my Mac Mini HDD to a external USB2 NTFS formatted HDD.

This is a no-go unless you install a utility to let you write to NTFS partitions; reading from them isn't an issue out-of-the-box. Something like MacFUSE or NTFS-3G for OS X will do the trick.

PDD

Hi Ethernet,

Thanks for the swift reply, my bad though as I forgot to mention that I have MacFUSE or NTFS-3G installed and it has been working perfectly for me since I installed it that is until this little issue cropped up.

Dave

iamhunted

go into terminal, go into root, chmod the permissions of the folder to 777, copy the folder and if you arent deleting it, change the permissions back to 755

PDD

@iamhunted - That didn't work Im afraid. I don't understand why either, I thought OS-X was *NIX variant under the hood so running the CHMOD command as sudo should have worked. If I do a get info it seems that the permissions has changed but when I go to move/copy the files it will start copying and then stop after a while stating I do not have sufficient privlidges.

I thought OS-X was rock solid but it seems to have a real difficulty with these files. I've run

sudo chflags -R nouchg /VirtualMachines/VMSharedFolder
sudo chmod -R 777 /VirtualMachines/VMSharedFolder

Several times but it doesn't seem to make a blind bit of difference. Any help with this would be really appreciated.

iamhunted

have you tried logging in as root? stick in the osx dvd, change the root password to what you want and then login with it. If it doesnt move the file when you are root then theres something amiss.

iamhunted

... or su to root in terminal rather than sudo and see. Technically they're both the same thing but you never know