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- nosaj
I'm wondering if there is a way I can lock an external Hard Drive so that it can't be accidentally formatted?
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- MrOneHundred0
Command–I (get info with hard drive icon selected. Go down to the Sharing and Permissions pane at the bottom and change all to read only.
- nosaj0
Can Read and write be on - just have the format option for particular drives in Disk Utilities locked?
- airey0
how do you accidentally format a drive?
- Having e-tarded parental units.omgitsacamera
- i was wondering the same thinglobstarr
- airey0
or this a question from 1996 and you've just format-c drive instead of the floppy disk. damn dos.
- airey0
"Having e-tarded parental units." - omgitsacamera
best quote this week. hahaha.
- acescence0
don't give the default user permission to run disk util, make it only accessible to a different admin account
- epic_rim0
put a condom over it.
- nosaj0
Every External HD I've purchase is Fat32. I often have source HD video files over 4GB in size so I reformat to Mac Journaled to handle the larger files. After a project is backed up I make a duplicate of the drive for off-site storage. This means I have to format external drives fairly regularly. I thought there might be a way to protect drives that aren't involved in archiving.