On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any ideas as to how to get out of this endless loop? >> > > Yea. Give the owners and permissions a wack from Terminal. > > 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. > > Thanks, that did help a lot.
Apps are still all over the place. The applications folder itself seems to make sense: System read/write admin read/write everyone read only but most of the applications are showing (unknown): read only or (unknown): read/write for the middle setting. Would clicking "apply to enclosed" pretty much take care of that? And yes, there's a full backup, thanks. -- 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
