[viper89]

I just transfered a bunch of music files from a Lacie HD to my Seagate HD. I cannot move any of the files since the album locked. Is there anything i can do to unlock them all?

[mduell]

Is the Seagate HD formatted as NTFS? OS X can't write to NTFS partitions.

Otherwise, I don't understand your problem and question.

[viper89]

Nope it's FAT-32. I'll try to re-phrase it, all of the album art in the folders is locked. So i cannot move any of it around until it is unlocked. I can easily unlock the image, but the amount that are locked just makes doing it one by one unfeasable. Thanks for the quick response

[CharlesS]

I'm not booted into Tiger right now, so I'm not sure if this will work, but you might be able to select all the files, hit Command-Option-I, and make changes in the Get Info window that will apply to all of them at once.

Barring that, you can do this with the Terminal. If the issue is permissions, you can fix it like this:

chown -R <your username> "/Volumes/<hd name>/path/to/folder_containing_files"
chown -R u+w "/Volumes/<hd name>/path/to/folder_containing_files"

Or, if the problem is the "Locked" check box being checked in Get Info, you can fix it like this:

chflags -R nouchg "/Volumes/<hd name>/path/to/folder_containing_files"

[viper89]

The problem is the Locked the box being checked in the get info. I have never used terminal before and i tryed putting in the chflags -R nouchg "/Volumes/<hd name>/path/to/folder_containing_files" string and nothing. The name of the HD is EXTERNAL HD

[CharlesS]

Yeah, I was intending for you to replace <hd name> with the hard disk's name. Then, you need to replace /path/to/folder_containing_files with the path to the folder containing the files you're trying to unlock.