Hi listers, I have a question about external hard drives and permissions. As a backup, I would normally copy the folders from my user on the mac, i.e. documents, videos, etc. to the external hard drive. When attempting to transfer my files to another computer, I was told I did not have the permissions to display contents of the folders. I know how to fix this, as you can plug the drive into the original mac, press command I, and change the permissions settings from within that screen. But there's still something I don't understand. If other computers do not have permission to the user folders on the drive, how was I able to access my stuff after performing a clean install of snow leopard? In other words, why didn't I get the error that I had no permissions when trying to reload things onto the newly formatted internal hard drive of my macbook? This puzzles me. Why didn't this error come up with, essentially a new Mac OS, yet it prevents me from moving things to other computers?
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