05-25-2017, 10:26 PM
About 2 months ago I bought a 2010 Mac Pro 2 X 2.93GHz (12-Cores) Xeon 1TB 32GB MC561LL/A-BTO + B Grade from isellimac on eBay. Paid about $1225 shipped. Its was sent in a Mac Pro box and arrived promptly. The only issue is although all 8 RAM slots have RAM sticks (4GB each), when it boots a little popup screen says the RAM slots are not populated in order, and it only sees seven of the eight sticks. I guess either one stick or one slot is bad.
I had cloned my Mac mini system volume (10.6.8) to the freshly wiped and partitioned Mac Pro HD and it booted fine EXCEPT that when I copied (drag & drop) the other 2 Mac Mini partitions to their respective Mac Pro partitions, the copy seemed to occur but I had the same permission problems you described above: neither of the copied partitions would open nor could I change permissions on those volumes.
I solved that problem by wiping the Mac Pro HD and starting over with it connected in TDM to the mini, which I booted from my 10.6.0 DVD. I installed several updates via TDM until i got to 10.6.4 (the minimum required to boot the Mac Pro), then updated directly from the Mac Pro. This time the drag and drop worked fine for the other 2 partitions. Of course I had to take the time to install all my apps from their respective CDs, but at least it all works correctly.
I had cloned my Mac mini system volume (10.6.8) to the freshly wiped and partitioned Mac Pro HD and it booted fine EXCEPT that when I copied (drag & drop) the other 2 Mac Mini partitions to their respective Mac Pro partitions, the copy seemed to occur but I had the same permission problems you described above: neither of the copied partitions would open nor could I change permissions on those volumes.
I solved that problem by wiping the Mac Pro HD and starting over with it connected in TDM to the mini, which I booted from my 10.6.0 DVD. I installed several updates via TDM until i got to 10.6.4 (the minimum required to boot the Mac Pro), then updated directly from the Mac Pro. This time the drag and drop worked fine for the other 2 partitions. Of course I had to take the time to install all my apps from their respective CDs, but at least it all works correctly.