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I've been experimenting with Disk Utility lately, trying to create a password protected folder. The strange thing is, I tried to make an image out of this folder called "Chess" and it created successfully. Then I tried it with another folder. This time, it asked me for admin authentication.

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I looked up all the guides on created password protected folders, and none of them mentioned you needed admin access. What is causing it to require administrator authentication?

I even did chmod 700 (path to folder being imaged) and chmod 700 (path to folder that the imaged folder is being saved into before imaging it. My version is 10.9.5.

(This was originally from Stack Exchange but the people suggested me to put it here.)

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  • chess has non-standard perms, because it's a 'core' app - check it in Get Info [I have no clue how to do it in terminal]
    – Tetsujin
    May 20, 2015 at 19:18
  • ermm… assuming we're talking about the Apple app… otherwise… idk, sorry ;)
    – Tetsujin
    May 20, 2015 at 19:25

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I found out what the problem was.

Somehow, on some files of the folder I was trying to image, the System was the owner. I don't know how that happened, but doing ** sudo chown** (my username) (files that I didn't own) fixed the problem.

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