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I need help getting write access to my Mac HD from Ubuntu. I can view and open the files in my Mac HD but I cannot write to the Mac HD. The options for "New folder" or "paste" are just grayed out when I'm in the Mac HD.

I have already gone into OS X and disabled journaling but no luck.

A full history;

When I first installed Ubuntu, I couldn't get ANY access to my Mac HD although I could see it on my "Files" application. I looked up some online solutions and tried this:

  1. sudo apt-get install hfsprogs (install HFS programs into Linux)
  2. sudo mount -o force /dev/sdX /your/mount/point (not sure what this is)
  3. sudo mount -o remount,rw,force /mount/point (remount)

...this didn't help.

what worked for me was:

  1. sudo useradd -d /home/tempuser -m -s /bin/bash -G admin tempuser (create a temp user on Linux)
  2. sudo passwd tempuser (setup password for new user)

Reboot and log in as tempuser. Then, open up the Terminal and type in the following commands:

  1. sudo usermod --uid 502 myusername (match my Ubuntu UID with that of OS X)
  2. sudo chown -R 502:myusername /home/myusername (no idea what this does)

....but after all this, although I could now access the Mac HD, it remains read only access until now.

techraf
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This is weird but I think I will now answer my own question!...for those who might have the same problem in future.

After messing around, I noticed that my mount options in "Disks" were set to "ro". Even my basic computer knowledge could recognise that meant read only, so(after a bit more research), I deleted the "ro" and bobs your uncle, I now have full access to my Mac HD.

All that was needed was to remove "ro" from "nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,ro,x-udisks-auth" in the mount options of my Mac partition. I think this is what you might have been suggesting Arduino.

Thanks to ever so much to all of you that responded.

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