Once you have a USB Zip drive in hand, how you proceed depends on if you’re working from a Windows PC or a Mac. But you’ll need a working Zip drive first. Otherwise, if your Zip disks are clean and in good shape, have been stored in a mostly climate-controlled space all these years, the odds are good that you’ll be able to read them. If your Zip disks are clean and were stored properly, reading them should be easy. Attempting to read a very dirty disk can further damage the data on the disk or damage the Zip drive that’s attempting to read it. If your disks show signs of extreme mold or water damage but the data on them is very valuable, it might be worth trying to contact a data rescue service first. Mold can grow on the magnetic disk surface itself in the wrong conditions, and that spells danger for your data. If your Zip disks have been stored in a hot, humid attic or damp basement for 20 years, it’s possible that you might have trouble reading them. First, Assess the Condition of Your Zip Disks I don't know if this is a sharing issue, a permissions issue or both.To actually read the data you copy over, you’ll need to figure out how to use virtual machines or emulators such as DOSBox and vintage applications to convert your data into a format you can use, and that’s far beyond the scope of what we’re going to cover below. I tried adding my Sharing account to the Permissions box on the Get Info dialogue, but PathFinder didn't let me save the changes (it didn't give me a reason), and Finder just says that “You can read and write” but doesn't show me any other options to add, subtract, edit or see other users with access. I know I can share them through my WiFi router, but I need to share them through my Macbook.
The hard drives are in ExFat and Fat32 formats. I have also tried using my administrator account since that one is already added to the folder's users with access list, but I cannot make SMB work with that account. And the users that already have access cannot be edited, they're also greyed out, as is the minus button.
The problem is that the “plus” button to add a user with access to that folder is greyed out when I select the hard drives, so I cannot add my file sharing account. I have set up a “Sharing” account that I give access to the files I want to share. The sharing works for folders and file in my Macbook. I'm trying to share an external hard drive through lan file sharing (SMB).
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