See this link, the functionality should be simialrIf the drive is MacOS Extended (Journaled) you can turn off permissions globallyif the drive is NTFS then macOS does not allow writing to the drive, and permissions are useless since they don't get read by macOS. You will need 3rd party software to allow writing, it has nothing to do with permissions, and if you don't need the drive physically connected directly to a computer running windows NTFS serves no purpose.Functionality of 3rd party utilites are up to the 3rd partyand CleanMyMac is scamware, remove it with prejudice before it causes harm to your system.See John Galts instructions in this thread. You can't change the permissions on the root level of the startup drive and some externals-not sure why some and not others. It's been that way since sometime in High Sierra.If you feel it is necessary, boot from another drive and adjust the permissions or disable SIP, change them, then re-enable SIP.Do you have any problems writing to folders not at the root level? Can you Authenticate to add folders to the root level of the hard drive?wheel is the system group which root is a member. It comes from the slang term, 'really big wheels,' meaning the top-level administrators.
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In the left column of the System Report, scroll down to the Software section. Then select Applications. The section on the right may go blank for a moment. This is because your Mac is compiling a list of software on your Mac. When the window appears, it will have two sections. Mac OS X uses permissions to restrict access to applications, files, and folders. Utilizing this security control can help protect your data from.
See this link, the functionality should be simialr
If the drive is MacOS Extended (Journaled) you can turn off permissions globally
if the drive is NTFS then macOS does not allow writing to the drive, and permissions are useless since they don't get read by macOS. You will need 3rd party software to allow writing, it has nothing to do with permissions, and if you don't need the drive physically connected directly to a computer running windows NTFS serves no purpose.
Functionality of 3rd party utilites are up to the 3rd party
and CleanMyMac is scamware, remove it with prejudice before it causes harm to your system.
See John Galts instructions in this thread
Oct 4, 2018 5:51 AM
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