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Applying Permissions takes forever

Why does it take forever for me to set the permissions for an external drive to all read & write? The drive is 4TB but has 2.04 TB on disk?


I am not changing the permissions on my whole computer but just on my external drive as I share it over the network for other Macs on WiFi. It is bulky to plug and unplug...

iMac, OS X 10.11

Posted on Dec 22, 2021 10:58 AM

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Applying Permissions takes forever

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