Friday, August 1, 2025

finder – how can I repair drawback with Preview refusing to delete recordsdata on exterior drive?

I discover that I usually can not take away recordsdata on my primary (hfs) exterior drive through Preview. I can take away them through a Finder window, and I can take away then from Terminal .. simply not Preview!

In the event that they’re on my primary drive (the inner SSD on my Mac Mini), I can take away them through Preview with none drawback.

Here is the directories (and safety flags) for one file in query (foo.jpg):

  ls -l -d / /Volumes/ss /Volumes/ss/pics /Volumes/ss/pics/misc   drwxr-xr-x  20 root    wheel   640 Oct 12  2022 /   drwxrwxr-x+ 97 root    wheel  3366 Jul 26 22:49 /Volumes/ss   drwxrwxr-x  33 sieler  workers  1122 Jul 27 21:17 /Volumes/ss/pics   drwxrwxr-x  13 sieler  workers   442 Jul 27 21:24 /Volumes/ss/pics/misc   -rw-r--r--  1  sieler  workers  3035137 Jul 19 12:40 foo.jpg 

Makes an attempt to take away through Previe (e.g., right-click, choose ‘Transfer to Trash’; or left click on and hit command-backspace) get a popup:

  You would not have permission to   transfer the file "foo.jpg" to the trash. 

What’s incorrect with Preview? (And, can I repair it?)

My exterior drive is: Mac OS Prolonged (Journaled) I am on Monterey (12.6.1)

Replace: Oddly, Preview will let me rotate them and save them again in place, which successfully removes (and recreates) them, so it HAS entry!
And, since I can Finder-remove, or Terminal/rm-remove, I clearly have the rights to take away the file (and to entry the .Trash folder).
(Sure, the overwhelming majority of different recordsdata on the drive are Preview detachable.)

thanks!

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