On Jan 27, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Bill Christensen wrote: > 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?
No, because inside the application bundles permissions vary Are the applications broken? -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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
