Hardware :: Unlock Drive To Watch DVD Regions?
Sep 11, 2009
Apologies if this is in the wrong place for this question, but I've just bought a new MacBook Pro with 10.5.7 and put in a DVD - and got the "change region" prompt.
Having lived on and bought region-specific (because I had no choice) dvds on at least three continents, I can see that I will soon find myself unable to watch dvds on my laptop.
Surely there must be a way to unlock the drive? I don't want to buy an external drive. I'm even surprised this region business still exists. Presumably it's a way of forcing consumers to download pirated copies of movies once their drive has locked?
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Apr 15, 2012
When I first installed Snow Leopard, I selected Italy as region but with english language.As a result, under Language & Text in System Preferences, my region in the Formats was set to "Italy (English)", that is the italian format but with months and days names in english.I accidentally changed that setting and selected "Italy (Italian)" and now I see months and days names in italian but with system language set to english.I tried to restore the original setting, but there is no "Italy (English)" option under regions.I also tried to change in italian the system language and then change it back to english, but the days names are still in italian. Aside from defining a Custom format, is there a way to restore the "Italy (English)" original setting?
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 16, 2010
I hope I am in the correct forum for this.
I have 2 macs (G4 1250) on a network with a Buffalo NAS Linkstation Pro Duo which most of the time works perfectly. However when one of the macs crashes some files on the NAS are locked and can not be written to. The get info permissions says either ' you can read only' or sometimes 'you have custom access' and offers no way of changing it.
I would be quite happy to turn off permissions as there are no other computers and no internet connection to this network. Otherwise if someone could tell me how to unlock the files I would be very grateful.
I am running OS 10.5.5
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Jan 6, 2011
External 120Gig firewire Hard drive became locked during one of the several swelling battery failures on my 17" MacBook Pro.
System info:
Mac Book Pro 17"
10.6.4
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
I have done the best I could with the available threads. Drive is still locked. I may be missing a critical step in the process. Is it possible for someone to walk me through it?
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Jan 31, 2012
Whenever I restart Tiger, it closes all the directory windows. I thought it should preserve all the window states in Tiger when you restart.Â
If I resize the directory window in my internal drive, it does not preserve the new window size. But if I resize an external disk directory window, it preserves the new size.Â
I found out from Get Info that my internal drive is locked with read only permission only, but my external drive is unlocked with read+write permission.Â
How do I change the permission so the window states can be preserved on my home drive?
Info:
iMac, MacBook, PowerBook, iPad, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Nov 14, 2010
I bought a Seagate Free Agent Go Flex External drive. I transferred all my files from my previous external HD.
When I went to access my folders on my external HD, the folders are all locked, with Sharing and Permission section in the Information "Everyone: Read" only! I can't change any of the information or move things! All of them are locked and "read only." I know how to change it, but only manually, individually. I have several hundreds of folders and I don't want to manually change all of them to "Read & Write." Is their a way to let me re-set the folders to "Read & Write" easily??
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Sep 29, 2009
I can watch movies from Netflix on our Mac book. But when I plug the computer into my TVs hdmi port I get sound but no picture. I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard.Before the upgrade, whenever I plugged the mac into the hdmi port the computer's desktop would appear on the TV; now I get nothing. What am I doing wrong?
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Jun 26, 2012
I use an external hard drive for Time Machine backups and to store some larger video files in a folder called Videos. The Videos folder on the external drive is now locked and I can't unlock it. I go to Get Info, hit the lock icon and enter my password, but the "Locked" checkbox is greyed out in the General section. In the Sharing and Permissions section, instead of displaying my name, it says "Fetching . . ." and I can't change the Privilege from "Write Only".Â
Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Sep 2, 2014
I have an external drive to store all my movies since I have no room on my iMac. I'd also like to watch my movies on other computers and I was wondering if there's a movie player that can be installed on the external drive to watch some movies like (.mkv) and so on.
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Sep 1, 2010
When tried to save newly typed text in a document residing in my Mac Hard Drive it refused to save. The only option I still have is to create and save a new document on the Desktop
Tried to fix it by opening Info of Mac Hard Drive . Sharing and Permission options at the bottom of the pane display this:
system - write only (drop box)
admin - read only
everyone - no access
They are not accessible (are dimmed), padlock is dimmed too, so I cant do any changes.
Tried to Option Click on the padlock but it blinks for a moment but goes locked again. Never before had a problem like this.
I have admin access to my Mac with no password set -I just click on OK instead.
Ive tried to do something via System>Accounts - my account, but when I click on the locked padlock it blinks for a moment but goes locked again, so I cant do anything here. (My account is the only one - I have no guest or other accounts set.)
The same story with the padlock when tried pane Internet&Wireless.
Overall, I believe I did something wrong when tried to set my computer inaccessible for strangers when I am on public WiFi hotspot
I am not tech savvy and at this point I dont know what else to do
My Mac is MacBookPro, OSX10.6
steps to unblock my HardDrive and get back my access to it ?
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Jun 16, 2012
My mac pro is locked how to unlock?
Info:
MacBook Pro
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Jul 15, 2005
Today I was trying out Freeway and Nvu, and somehow one of the System folders and another folder (and all of the folders within those two major folders) cannot be modified. When I try to drag another file/folder into the restricted folders, a message tells me, "The item .... could not be moved because "Folder" cannot be modified."
How do I undo this restriction? There are two choices in the message window, one says "Authenticate," and the other says "OK." If I click on "Authenticate," then I can type in my password and complete the action.
I cannot find any settings to undo this problem!
-- vjamacaddict, G4 iBook, OS X 10.3.9, Bluetooth
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Apr 3, 2009
I currently have a 500gb FreeAgent Pro external HD. When I try to put files in, it won't let me. I check the info, and I can only read.
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Jul 20, 2010
I have two accounts in my mac, I decided to transfer them all into one user, therefore I deleted one of the user. I have ticked not to delete the home folder and this cause a file named "XXXXX (deleted)" exists. I tried to drag the "XXXX (deleted)" into my home folder. But I cannot open anything. I knew I could solve it by setting in "Get Info". But it takes me millions of years, because there are lot's of files.
Could I rebuild the account before to move those folders?
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Jan 2, 2011
I put Windows Media Player in my trash to throw away. When I attempt to empty my trash can, I am informed that all the files in the software are locked and therefore I can't throw away the software. When I open the info box on the software, it says it isn't locked. And when I tried to drag the software out of the trash and onto my desktop, it copied itself so then I got another version of the same software.
I'm sure there is something simple I am doing wrong, but I don't know what it is. If anyone knows what to do
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Mar 8, 2006
Every time that i start my computer up and go to an application that requires a password (eg adium, mail, safari) i get a pop up that asks me to unlock my keychain. it's done this for a very long time but has only just started to cause a problem. sometimes when i open an application at start up the pop up for the keychain password doesn't appear and causes the application to freeze and requires a restart to fix the problem.
is there any way i can stop it from needing to ask me?
i've tried unlocking the keychain and then restarting
tried deleting my keychain and starting a new one
tried verifying and reparing the keychain
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May 17, 2009
Ext hard drive "Free Agent"
Was born on a PC, now plugging into OS X
The folders on the drive are locked on the MAC
Get Info = "Locked" checked & grayed out, Sharing & Permissions is "read only" w/ no options to change it.
Now what?
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Jul 24, 2009
I've just installed a copy of XP sp2 on my macbook pro using the Bootcamp setup, and as far as I can tell it all went well. My problem is that now I have a popup saying that I have 30 days to unlock the product. The copy I used is one that came with the pc that I bought several years ago, and the key is the one on my pc. Because I purchased the xp copy with my previous pc I don't think I'm doing anything inapropriate, is there a way to unlock this software for my mac, or do I have to purchase a new copy?
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May 6, 2010
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I found an app but it was shareware and $25 and as I'm a student that isn't really an option for a single citation. Would be very grateful if anyone has any answers.
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Feb 27, 2009
I just noticed there is a locked exe on my desktop that has the filename "___" Its last modified date says to be Friday, June 20, 1969. Anyone know how it could have gotten there or if it's okay to delete.
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Feb 5, 2012
I cannot unlock Macbook Pro. I might have forgot ID and psw or my child might have lock it up. I have a black screen and a request of ID and psw. However I am not able to unlock it. I am pretty sure about the psw but doubt abot ID.
Info:MacBookPro
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Mar 22, 2012
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Apr 11, 2012
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Apr 14, 2012
I got my macbook pro stolen yesterday, and my first reaction was to lock it on Icloud. I didn't read the instructions before doing so but now that I read them I noticed that by locking it I won't be able to find it or wipe it. How do I unlock it?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 18, 2012
When I opened a file from a school presentation I went to download it off my Mac. The task bar on the Preview screen says locked and I can't do anything with preview or close it. How do I unlock Preview!
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How do i unblock an ad in Safari?
Info:iMac, iOS 5.1
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Jun 7, 2012
I have several files in both Pages and Numbers which I cannot open - when opened they are blank. The instruction to unlock does not work because the 'unlock' option in the 'Arrange' drop down menu is greyed out.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jul 4, 2012
I bought my imac online, I have completed everything to try to unlock it. I held down the options button and now I am looking at a big lock. Tried to reset back to factory settings but can't, tried for it reset the password and still nothing. I do know that the computer is out of warranty and I after I paid all this money for the computer I can't use it. I don't have transportation to take it in
Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 6, 2009
After installing a new account on the internal harddisc after software problems, my MAC OS 10 went into lock. Not only the internal harddisc, but also my three external harddiscs. My MAc says I don't have the priviliges to unlock, which is not the case of course. If I go to 'info' I can unlock the lock icon on my user account, but from then on the MAC does not respond to any commands or changes I would like to make.
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Oct 20, 2009
I recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 from OS X 10.5, but after that I have been unable to unlock the security preferences. Also whenever I try to install any software or update, instead of asking me the administrator password, the system does nothing, no dialog box appears. When I tried to unlock the security preferences in the System Preferences, after the clicking the 'lock' icon, the status bar shows "Authenticating....." for a couple of settings but nothing happens after that!
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