When the setting to ignore permissions on secondary hard drives keeps toggling off, blocking access, here's what to try. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

In your business, you may need to prevent employees or others from accessing an external hard drive to keep the contents private or safe from edits.The Mac operating system assigns permissions to ...

Despite its colourful exterior it’s always worth remembering that Mac OS X is a very powerful Unix-based operating system. Underneath the hood is a complex OS with careful control over who gets to do ...

The "You don't currently have permission to access this folder" error is a common issue that can arise when trying to access files or folders on your Windows system ...

It won't cure all of your Mac's ills, but a quick and easy first step toward bringing a sluggish Mac back to health is using OS X's Disk Utility to repair disk permissions. Matt Elliott Senior Editor ...

When it comes to Mac OS X troubleshooting and maintenance, Repairing permissions may be the most frequently recommended course of action. It’s also easily the most maligned. The procedure has taken ...

Macworld.com – If you have multiple Macs in your home, and you’re running OS X 10.5, you may run into a permissions problem with each user’s Drop Box. For those not familiar, the Drop Box folder (in ...