cannot open partition and cannot format partition (FAT32) Mac OSX Lion

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on June 06, 2012 01:49:39

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. plug in external hard drive (relatively new seagate 1TB)
2. run the app
3. click the partition button What is the expected output? What do you see instead? The expected outcome would be to format the partition as wbfs. I get nothing but the message that it cannot open or format the partition. What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 1.2.0 (svnexported release) Mac OSX Lion Please provide any additional information below. The wiki didnt have any additional information pertaining to this issue specifically. Am I missing something? Thank you.

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/qwbfs/issues/detail?id=21

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on June 09, 2012 13:59:45

im trying to install version 1.2.2 but not really sure how to without the configure file... is there somewhere you can point me that will help walk me through install from source via the terminal?

[pasnox]

From pasnox on June 13, 2012 14:53:06

Im currently in holidays. I Will check that at my return. Thanks

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on July 29, 2012 22:35:47

I was also seeing the same issue. It is related to the changes in security for Lion and Mountain Lion. I've thrown together a script that requests for admin privileges. All that needs to be done is the following:

/Applications/QWBFSManager.app/Contents/MacOS
rename:
QWBFSManager to QWBFSManager_app

And make sure you save the attached file as /Applications/QWBFSManager.app/Contents/MacOS/QWBFSManager

This is required until the QWBFSManager has implemented administration privileges requests within their application.

Attachment: QWBFSManager

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on August 31, 2012 07:55:28

Thanks for the script, i will integrate it in the next release if u allow that.

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on October 16, 2012 00:57:36

Ran into same problem. By the way, it won't work unless you give it the right permissions:

chmod a+x /Applications/QWBFSManager.app/Contents/MacOS/QWBFSManager

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on January 03, 2013 11:19:46

I have followed your steps but it doesn't work :-(
Now the application asks me the password but it cannot open the partition or format it :-(
What I can do? thank a lot

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on April 03, 2013 19:19:14

I need help too!!!!

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on July 03, 2013 22:47:28

If you're still having issues it could be that your sudo isn't allowed to run outside of a tty environment. To fix this, edit /etc/sudoers and remove the "requiretty" Default.

[pasnox]

From [email protected] on July 03, 2013 23:15:26

Actually, keep the requiretty and add the following to your /etc/sudoers:

Defaults: !requiretty

where is the account you want to allow sudo to run without tty.