How to unlock folders in Mac Os X Leopard

It has been turning me crazy that small lock in some of the folders that I share between Mac Os X and Windows in my external hard-drive and the fact that it wasn’t possible to remove it.

Well apparently everything is thanks to Windows “great design” and their idea to ignore the read only bit; why? I dunno . I haven’t bothered to read their explanation, but at least I’m giving you one solution

1. Open the windows console (Start->Run->cmd)
2. Run the following comand: attrib -r +s “C:unlockthisplease”
3. You dit it!

That’s it, don’t expect any answer back from the console but if you want to do some checking type: attrib “C:unlockthisplease”; and please substitute “C:unlockthisplease” for the real path to your file/folder.

Entry posted on February 27th, 2008 at 22:14 under Mac Os X.
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