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astrodad · 12-29-2018, 07:54 PM

Hi there,

Been a while since I posted here, but you guys are all geniuses, so if anyone can solve this, you can. I have an old Paperwhite (2012 I think) that is visible in the Finder on Mac, but is apparently mounted read only since I cannot copy anything via drag and drop (I get the circle with a line through it) or through Calibre (which reports that the /Volumes/Kindle volume is mounted read-only).

I have tried running fsck_msdos on it and it doesn't report any issues. I've reset it to factory and am getting the same results on two different PW's.

Any thoughts?

I'm running macOS 10.14.2, kindle version 5.6.1.1.

12-29-2018, 07:54 PM	#1
astrodad Guru Posts: 962 Karma: 568242 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle Oasis 3, Kindle Paperwhite 1, iPad, iPhone	HELP: Kindle PW read only on MacOS Mojave Hi there, Been a while since I posted here, but you guys are all geniuses, so if anyone can solve this, you can. I have an old Paperwhite (2012 I think) that is visible in the Finder on Mac, but is apparently mounted read only since I cannot copy anything via drag and drop (I get the circle with a line through it) or through Calibre (which reports that the /Volumes/Kindle volume is mounted read-only). I have tried running fsck_msdos on it and it doesn't report any issues. I've reset it to factory and am getting the same results on two different PW's. Any thoughts? I'm running macOS 10.14.2, kindle version 5.6.1.1.