I have a problem on a external drive which permissions are looking for an unknown user. In the permission list it says "loading…"(or similar word, not on an english machine) in the user field.
How can I find out what user it's looking for? Is there anything I can do in the terminal?
Best Answer
If you browse to one of the external disks' folders in the Terminal, typing
ls -l
will show you the owner and group as the third and fourth columns.If these are just numeric IDs, your system doesn't know who the owning user is, and is printing a raw UID/GID instead.