Changing my mac hd perms

[dull silo]

when i try to make it read and write for myself it says i dont have teh right permissions to do this. is there anyway I can get those permisions?

[kindred oracle]

Hi there you can change the owner ship to you cos it may seem like you don’t have permissions to
Open your terminal
Type

ls /Volumes

Then you should see the drive
And then change the owner ship of the drive to your account using

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Volumes/<drive-name>

for the <drivr-name> let it be the name of the drive that’s asking for the permission
Then enter your Mac’s password and it should work

If that doesn’t work
Open the terminal again
Type

sudo chmod -R 755 /Volumes/<drive-name>

replace the <drivr-name> with the name of the actual drive that needs the permission it should give you both read and write access now s

[dull silo]

when i do that it says: zsh: parse error near `\n'

am i doiing something wrong?

[kindred oracle]

without the <>

[dull silo]

ohh ok

but now it says: chmod: /Volumes/Macintosh: No such file or directory
chmod: HD: No such file or directory

[kindred oracle]

Send a pic

[kindred oracle]

Add a backslash after Macintosh

[kindred oracle]

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

sudo chmod -R 755 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

[dull silo]

ok

yo i think it works

tysm

yessss

[kindred oracle]

You now have read and write access ?

[dull silo]

i dunnolemme try

im opening the thing

cuz the terminal didn't show any errors

hmmm

it still says i dont have access

[kindred oracle]

That wound be cos of MaCOS system protection preventing the changes from happening

[dull silo]

so tehres no way of changing it

[kindred oracle]

There is
You can disable SIP and try it again
Then restart your Mac and check it if you now have permission

[dull silo]

oh yea

i read abt it

[kindred oracle]

First type

diskutil list

And send a pic of what you see

[dull silo]

soemwhere

[dull silo]

what for

[kindred oracle]

Are you sure you still want to go ahead with this ? (Disabling SIP)

[dull silo]

sure

and then ill renenable after

[kindred oracle]

Wanted to see if there were other volumes for Macintosh hd

[kindred oracle]

Okay

Then type sudo csrutil disable

Then

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
sudo chmod -R 755 /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

Restart your Mac after disabling sip

[dull silo]

wait i have to boot into recovery mode

one sec

its cmd r while its starts right

[kindred oracle]

huh recovery mode?

you dont need to boot into that

were you prompted to ?

[dull silo]

yea

it says the operation can only be use din recoveryos

ok i did

[hidden echo]

Disabling SIP requires recovery mode, yeah

[hidden echo]

After booting back into macOS, you should have access to change permissions of all protected directories and drives

[dull silo]

I don't tho???

[hidden echo]

Is there still an error?

[dull silo]

Yea

[hidden echo]

What error is it?

[dull silo]

It says that you do not have the right permissions for this process

[hidden echo]

You changed the ownership of the drive?
Maybe try changing ownership of /

[dull silo]

I tried earlier with sam

[hidden echo]

Yeah, but did u try changing ownership of /

Also why are you trying to do this?

[dull silo]

Bc I need access of the drive

Cuz I'm tryna use the misaka x

And nugget

And when I import the mobile gestalt misaka says that Mac had is read only so it can't be used

[hidden echo]

Ok 👍
So, to confirm, you did try to chown /?

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /
sudo chmod -R 755 /

If that doesn’t work, then it might be macOS since it’s so locked down

[dull silo]

Oh not just /

One sec

My Mac's updating rn

I'll try it once it's done

[hidden echo]

And one more thing,
Doing all this, being setting SIP to off, and changing ownership of / to everyone read/write can have some consequences, as your system security will be quite reduced. After this action, I would recommend turning on at least part of SIP.

[dull silo]

ok

so is it possible to turn off sip

enable the read and write

then reenable sip

[hidden echo]

@dull silo I don’t rly know, but you can disable specifically the protected file protection

You’ll have to research that one tho but it shouldn’t be hard, there’s specific parts to sip that you can configure

[kindred oracle]

Yup

[dull silo]

yo guys

so the problem is that whenever i run the sudo chown -R $(whoami) or anything like that it puts my computer into where it kind of crashes, restarts then works for a few seconds. touch pad goes out, then restarts and the cycle restarts. so now ive been forced to reinstala new version of macos but i still have my data

so is there anyway to stop this?

[kindred oracle]

Have you enabled SIP back?

[dull silo]

ok wait to get the process right i turn off sip and then try?

owhat

@kindred oracle

[dull silo]

should i

[kindred oracle]

After disabling sip the first time
Did you try the commands ?

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[dull silo]

ye but thren it does the loop thing

[kindred oracle]

Ahh I see I’d advice you turn sip back on

Last option you might need to do is reinstall macOS

[dull silo]

ok

nvm

i figured it out i didn't change the permissions but i just moved teh files to a external hard disk and the program could pick them up. it was a saftey feature

but thanks for yalls help

[kindred oracle]

ahh lol