Excuse me apple?

[Vatablous]

I have a 2014 model mac book pro. I recently round these files while scrolling through my hard drive. Would apple please care to explain WHY I can not open the files ON MY COMPUTER?

Is there something they do not want me to know?

 

I found these files under; Macintosh HD; Libary; Caches.

This is not any sort of Crypto RansomWare.

 

[Goodman2265]

no. they just dont want you fucking up any important stuff, by the looks of it. seems important

[LienusLateTips]

Its system files. Easy and simple. Same with older versions of windows. And there are "hidden files" in Windows and Mac too.

[Evanair]

Apple locks you out of the OS.  You are leasing the OS from them, you don't get the right to edit the files.

[Vatablous]

1 minute ago, Goodman2265 said:

no. they just dont want you fucking up any important stuff, by the looks of it. seems important

I have found a way to unlock it but when I open one of the files inside it says. Seems they're hiding something... Inside us...

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, Evanair said:

Apple locks you out of the OS.  You are leasing the OS from them, you don't get the right to edit the files.

Just like pretty much all other propreitory software.

[Goodman2265]

Just now, Vatablous said:

I have found a way to unlock it but when I open one of the files inside it says. Seems they're hiding something... Inside us...

okay this is either a troll or your dumb

[Arc_Jester]

You can't be serious...

[SCHISCHKA]

this has to be a troll post. April first was over a week ago

[Vatablous]

2 hours ago, Arc_Jester said:

You can't be serious...

100%

[Vatablous]

1 hour ago, SCHISCHKA said:

this has to be a troll post. April first was over a week ago

Last I remember there are no easter pranks...

[kirashi]

2 hours ago, Vatablous said:

I have a 2014 model mac book pro. I recently round these files while scrolling through my hard drive. Would apple please care to explain WHY I can not open the files ON MY COMPUTER?

Is there something they do not want me to know?

 

I found these files under; Macintosh HD; Libary; Caches.

This is not any sort of Crypto RansomWare.

Apple is based on a Unix-like variant of the BSD operating system. Unix-based OS's have a completely different permission system from Windows. macOS is simply telling you that your user account (the one you login with) doesn't have permission to access these files. Most system files on Unix-like OS's are owned by a root user or group (superuser) that is above ALL other accounts on the system. This is normal. This is done to prevent tampering with system files by users like yourself, or potentially malicious software packages. If you have any other questions, please ask away.

[Vatablous]

2 hours ago, Goodman2265 said:

okay this is either a troll or your dumb

Not a troll. Rather think I'm not dumb.

[Vatablous]

2 hours ago, JDE said:

Just like pretty much all other propreitory software.

But it blocks you from deleting important stuff anyway...

[LienusLateTips]

2 minutes ago, Vatablous said:

But it blocks you from deleting important stuff anyway...

Yes, but why would you delete it. Are you trolling?

[Vatablous]

17 minutes ago, JDE said:

Yes, but why would you delete it. Are you trolling?

There is no troll. I'm saying I don't understand why they would need to block access to the folder when there are other loose files that the system needs but can't be deleted. 

[noahdvs]

You can probably do whatever you want with the files if you use root in the terminal, but you shouldn't mess with those files. The reason why you can't open the files is because you simply don't have a program that can open .isdata files. No conspiracy, they just don't trust you not to fuck up your system. As for why they don't block access to all system files, it's possible that touching the ones you can access won't cause irreparable damage or that it's simply not practical to block access to all system files because of how some need to be used.

[DocSwag]

7 hours ago, Vatablous said:

There is no troll. I'm saying I don't understand why they would need to block access to the folder when there are other loose files that the system needs but can't be deleted. 

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking...

 

MacOS is blocking you from deleting the file because if you do, most likely it will cause issues with the OS itself. It's basically protecting you. If you really wanted to delete it, then you could go to terminal and type in "sudo rm -file location-" and once you enter your admin password it should delete it.

10 hours ago, Vatablous said:

I have found a way to unlock it but when I open one of the files inside it says. Seems they're hiding something... Inside us...

That's because the file isn't formatted as any type of file that any application you own can directly read. On Windows there are files that are also like this, I'm pretty sure if you open a .dll file it will give you a similar message. Most likely it's a configuration file or something similar. If you really want to open it you could hit choose application and then choose TextEdit. However, most likely it'll just show up as a bunch of jarbled mess because it's in either machine code or assembly code and TextEdit has no idea what the hell it is.

[pmos]

Just a heads up, Windows does the same thing.. you can get around it on windows and macOS.

[DrMacintosh]

On 4/9/2017 at 8:08 PM, Evanair said:

Apple locks you out of the OS.  You are leasing the OS from them, you don't get the right to edit the files.

This is a flat out lie

[DrMacintosh]

Its a critical system file. Much like Windows, you do not have easy access to it because you can potentially damage the system. And believe me, people "accidentally" delete key system files in the iOS Jailbreak community all the time. 

 

Its for the better. If you really want access to the files simply on merit, you can do that. But I won't help you do it.