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Now Q-emuLator will be able to access the QL floppy disk (as it did by default on previous versions of OS X).
#Clearing floppy disk emulator password
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For example, in my case the floppy appeared as rdisk2. Take a mental note of the disk number for the floppy disk. You should notice an additional disk listed (compared to the first time you run the same command).
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In OS X all disks are visible (“mounted”) as subdirectories of the /dev directory, so to enable Q-emuLator to access a floppy disk you may use the following procedure: The easiest solution is for root to grant access to the floppy disk to everyone. On OS X Mavericks, for example, Q-emuLator by default will not be able to gain access to QL floppy disks. This change may have closed a potential security hole, but it also means that emulators are no longer able to access floppy disks without the root user authorizing the access at some point. In recent versions of the OS, Apple changed the permissions and only root can now access floppy disks at the low level necessary to be able to read non-Mac and non-PC disks. In OS X, it used to be possible for users to get raw access to removable disks, including floppy disks.