On Apr 17, 5:54 pm, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: Thank you for the response. > > Did you figure out what caused the problem?
Bruce, First I cloned the external drive from another drive and I naturally became the administrator. Then I added GLK (father-in-law) as a User and then made him the administrator. (The plan was to boot from this drive and/or clone it back to his internal drive.) Then I drag/dropped GLK's backed up files to the "new" external drive. Most of the files (but not all) were locked, read only, with me as the owner. I had to unlock, change ownership and then I could change folder color. I don't think this answers "cause". That is, I don't know what I could/ should have done to avoid the laborious file by file fix. Fortunately, GLK doesn't have much on his drive. Maybe it's the drag/drop file thing? hth Cliff -- 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
