External hard drive constantly needs permission to change files

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External hard drive constantly needs permission to change files

When I try to do anything on my external hard drive, Finder requires me to give permission by typing in my user's password to do something as simple as renaming a folder. It always prompts me with "Finder wants to... enter your password to allow this."

I checked under the "Get Info" tab of my external hard drive to see if it was locked, but no such option was available. Is this a Finder issue or am I just blind and can't find the setting?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 21, 2020 3:28 PM

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BeanDip26 Author

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Apr 21, 2020 9:33 PM in response to Barney-15E

Some are on the front page of the drive and some are in other folder inside the drive.

However, I did find out what the problem was. I had the "everyone" under Sharing and Permissions on "Read Only" instead of "Read and Write" even though the user I was on had a specific "Read and Write" privilege.

Thank you anyway.

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Barney-15E

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Apr 21, 2020 5:48 PM in response to BeanDip26

Where on the drive are the files/folders? Are they at the root level (top level) of the drive, or are they inside other subfolders?

If you Get Info, is the Ignore Ownership checkbox selected?

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External hard drive constantly needs permission to change files

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