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Mac HDD Is Encrypted

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I have the hard drive from a PowerMac G5, which was my old computer before it died and I upgraded to Ubuntu Studio.

The hard drive its self still works well, but on Ubuntu I can't access most of the files. I plugged it into my MacBook Air and changed some of the perms on some of the folders as a test. This worked for a few, but for others, I was getting the same message

Cannot access folder.  Access denied.

I would like to use this as an external HDD (I have a case and everything), but it's kind of pointless if I can't access the folders that I want. After looking around for a couple of hours, I couldn't find anything that actually gave me an answer.

I would like to know if:

Anybody else has come upon this problem,

If so, have you found a solution? and,

What is it?

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answered 3 Years ago laiuct · Accepted Answer

I figured it out!!!!

I used Midnight Commander go in as root and I copied all of the files to a new HDD, telling it to ignore all of the tags. I now have access to all of my music.

The problem, as it turns out, is that the disk is mounted as read-only. I would love to figure out why, but I'm happy with the way it is right now.

Thank you to all who helped.