my passport for mac won't let me add files

The files owned by jskworon (MBP) are available to you, but the files owned by jskowron (iMac) are not because that is a different account as far as OS X is concerned. When the drive is attached to the MBP, you are logged in as jskworon (MBP) and some of the files belong to you, others belong to jskowron (iMac). Let's assume your name on the MBP is 'jskowron' and on the iMac it's also 'jskowron.' Let's distinguish them with jskowron (MBP) and jskowron (iMac), even though they are really the same name and look the same to our eyes.

Let me try again to explain why Everyone is the account to change. If the permissions are ok now, why do you think you need to do something? Again, if you gave Everyone read & write privileges, when you move the drive back and forth the files should be available. I'm not sure what you are asking for, sorry. Rebooting can help with processes that are hung up. OK, I had to go out for a while, nice to see you got control. But by granting Everyone read and write, I solve the problem by giving all accounts read and write privileges. To my eye, they would look to have one owner, namely, 'jakerichards' but in fact there would be two owners, and unless I set it up so that jakerichards on machine 1 has access to the files created by jakerichards on machine 2, they will be blocked. And on that shared drive, some files would have privileges for the account on one machine and others could have privileges on the other. Now, if I had a second machine and if it had an account named 'jakerichards' even though those two accounts look to my eyes to be the same, OS X is treating them as two different accounts. What I mean by 'two accounts' is that if you look at the image I posted, you'll see a account for 'jakerichards (me).' That is my account on that machine. Or you can click on the Apple logo upper left and select Force Quit and pick the task from the list and quit it there.

I'd suggest a reboot may be the better way to kill the process as the shutdown should try to end that stalled job and if it can't, it should give you the opportunity to Force Quit. And if the progress bar isn't moving along, nothing is happening. If it's not, as I said it may be in red for stalled. The quickest way to see it is to open Act Mon, click on the CPU tab and then click on the % CPU header until the processes are listed in decreasing percent. You can open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder to see if it has ceased to operate (it will be colored in red). And the progress bar doesn't seem to have made any progress, which may indicate the process has crashed or stalled. I couldn't make out the details of the screen shot because it was fuzzy when I made it large enough to try to read, but from what I can make out, it looks like Everyone is still just read only.

My passport for mac won't let me add files