I have a MacBook Pro with an external USB hard drive. A program I wrote is having trouble reading the files in Backups.backupdb
so I look at the permissions:
> pwd
/Volumes/G-DRIVE
> ls -led Backups.backupdb
drwxr-xr-x+ 7 rob staff 238 Feb 10 2012 Backups.backupdb
0: group:everyone deny add_file,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,chown
This is an older drive. I no longer use it for Time Machine backups, so I don't care if I clear out permissions that used to protect this folder
But I can't clear them:
> sudo chmod -N Backups.backupdb
> chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file Backups.backupdb: Operation not permitted
Attempts to find some hidden attribute that might be preventing the chmod:
> ls -ldO Backups.backupdb
> drwxr-xr-x+ 7 rob staff - 238 Feb 10 2012 Backups.backupdb
> xattr Backups.backupdb
[nothing]
Why is the operation not permitted?
I just used Disk Utility to look at the drive. It didn't find any problems.