This is the 2nd try on this one....
Bruce,
You will see something like this:
frankenmac:~ johnson$ cd ..
frankenmac:Users johnson$ ls -l
total 0
drwxrwxrwt 10 root wheel 340 Apr 29 2009 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 102 johnson staff 3468 Dec 28 15:01 johnson
drwxr-xr-x+ 16 test staff 544 Feb 1 2009 test
What I saw was exactly like this:
drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 306 Jan 11 22:14 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 89 marianne staff 3026 Nov 19 16:00 macbookuser
drwxr-xr-x 69 marianne marianne 2346 Jan 18 15:37 mariannegirard
I remembered that the macbookuser entry was her old login. So I figured
I needed to use the 3rd line above as my source for username and group.
sudo chown -R username:group /Users/username
Where username is her short username, and group is the second name after the
user name.
That got me:
chown: marianne: Invalid argument
When I then tried it again using "staff" instead of "marianne" for the
group, I got the same results. :(
If you can try running Repair Permissions in Disk Utility
I did NOT try this because I didn't know whether or not it was
conditional on the success of the Terminal command.
I don't know how to proceed at this point and really appreciate your
assistance.
--
Malcolm
800MHz 17" flat panel iMac running Leopard (1GB RAM, 500GB HD)
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