No, no, no, no. Do not change permissions on files you do not know who they belong to. It's likely her problem is/was that she simply gave ownership of her home folder/documents folder to another user on her machine (since a reinstall didn't fix the problem) Performing an ls -l in the home directory won't tell you who owns the home folder, (though it will tell you who owns all the folders inside it such as documents, desktop, and the like) If they are owned by the user, all is well there, so do a cd .. (that's a cd followed by 2 periods to go up one directory level) then do ls -l again, find your home folder name, and look to see who owns it, and what it's permissions are. It should be owned by your username, and it should show something like dwrxr-xr-x This shows that it's a directory, has permissions 755 (read/write/execute for the user, and read/execute for everyone else. If you're the only user, then you're good (unless they've been given to root) In that case, you'll need to chown user folder_name (as root) to change ownership back to the proper user. You would use the sudo command to run the chown command in that case. However, there is no need to change permissions on every single file/folder to 755, that just opens up all kinds of issues. Don't give more permissions than are necessary to do the job, and 755 (for normal files) is too much permission.
On Mar 9, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Haghighi,Amin wrote: > I know linux command to change permission of directories. > > I do this command in linux all the time. > I never have done this command in MAC. > > Try this may be it works for you. > > 1. start terminal > 2. do ls command at the prompt. It should show all the folder names. > 3. type chmod -R 755 <the name of each folder> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Ann Byrne > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 9:26 PM > To: OS X & iOS Accessibility > Subject: [Mac-access]: Can't write to existing files; can't create new ones > > I restored the opearting system from the recovery partition and the > permissions did not reset. > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > the list's public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the > Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. > However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume > neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > the list's public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the > Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. > However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume > neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at the list's public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
