Sharing folder or adding user to folder permissions using Finder's Get Info not possible
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16-04-2021 - |
Question
Solution
/* Posting this here in case someone else encounters a similar issue. */
This happened on a volume on an external drive. I took a look in Terminal:
Boxx:Test Alex$ ls -la /Volumes/External\ Drive/Users/Test
total 0
drwx---r-x+ 3 Test 501 101 17 Aug 18:56 .
drwx---r-x@ 6 root admin 203 17 Aug 18:52 ..
drwx------ 9 Test 501 305 26 Aug 21:00 Documents
To see if I could change anything via Terminal I tried
sudo chmod 755 /Volumes/External\ Drive/Users/Test/Documents/
and got as response
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /Volumes/External Drive/Users/Test/Documents/: Read-only file system
That then indicated to me that something was not right with the way the volume was mounted. I don't know why it mounted as read-only, but remember not seeing it at first among the volumes in Finder. So I did Shift+Command+G and entered the volume path before:
The volume mounted, but seemingly only as read-only.
Unmounting and re-mounting it again solved the problem above.