Hi folks, I've run into a rather strange problem. I was having trouble with my hard drive, so decided it was time to migrate to one of my faster machines - a dual 867 G4 MDD which I'd recently taken out of serverhood. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to rescue the contents of the original 128gig drive and put them on a 250gig drive. With the additional space and the faster machine I decided to make the move from trusty old 10.3.9 to 10.4.11 - which turned out to run slower than I had expected, so I bumped right on up to the latest 10.5, which the same MDD has been running for at least a year with no problems and noticeably better speed.
Somewhere along the way I started seeing permissions issues - many if not all folders that I should have access to are listed as System: read & write unknown: read only everyone: read only and I was having to enter username and password to do simple moving of files. Downloads wouldn't be saved as the permissions didn't allow. I've tried permissions fixes from disk utility on the boot drive, from the 10.5 install disk, as well as manually changing some just to be able to function. The wierd thing is that the changes with disk utility aren't sticking - If I run DU again (after rebooting or not) the same permissions are seen as incorrect and are "fixed". Any ideas as to how to get out of this endless loop? Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
