At 2:03 AM -0600 1/27/2011, Bill Christensen wrote:
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
Somewhere along the way your migrated files but not the user id definitions.
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".
That's simply not what the repair permissions function does. (see
my reply in Al's repair permissions thread on the gbook list this
morning).
Any ideas as to how to get out of this endless loop?
Yea. Give the owners and permissions a wack from Terminal.
(In this example, I'm going to assume your shortname is "bill";
change it as you need.)
First, reset the directory and file ownerships with a chown command
in Terminal, from your admin account:
sudo chown -R bill:bill /Users/bill/
If that doesn't fix things up we can give you the commands to do the rest.
...Please make a FULL backup before doing this. It's going to modify
the ownership of EVERY file in your user directory.
- Dan.
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