----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello.
neil On Nov 17, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > Although OS X / Darwin / Unix appears to perform access control using your > name, in fact a number underlies every name on the system. The first user > typically owns 501, the next 502, etc. What the user name for 501 is is > different on different machines. Yeah, I was aware of the 501, 502 issue; but (at least in this case) that isn't the problem. The first created admin account is the same name as it always is and the daily driver account was the second account created for both the clone I copied the homedir from and the new installation. Still though; something is amiss since I am having those "I have access but I don't" issues…including having to give admin password for removing things from the desktop of the daily driver account even though Get Info says I have the right perms and I'm logged in as the daily driver account. I've always created the first admin account then my daily driver non admin account then any other user accounts I need to have (wife, wife admin account since she can't remember the admin account password, etc). At worst I can do an import for the mail and point it to the clone drive copy I guess and redownload all of the iTunes Store stuff; but as I said in another reply that's harder since we live in an RV full-time and have both speed and monthly allotment issues on our internet connectivity. Maybe I just need to go to the library and sit for an hour or two while it all downloads. I have to admit this has been quite frustrating. I've reloaded this MBP Retina 4 times since it was new and while I and reasonably sure the first 3 of those were due to the failing SSD the last one was something else entirely. For this last one, I installed the OS and patches while sitting at the local public library then copied over my homedir and recreated the account as above. Everything worked perfectly for about a week then I went back to the library and reinstalled all of my App Store applications. Included in these was Mountain Lion Server which I had previously loaded on my laptop for evaluation purposes, not to actually use as a server. I know that Server doesn't really like a non static IP but have had no issues in the past with simply loading the Server app without configuring it. This time however, after downloading Server at the end of the process I just slept the machine without ever running Server and came home. Before I did that I set Networks from the DHCP Everything location to the location named RV Home which is setup as DHCP with a fixed IP to make sshing between computers easily. Got home and woke up the laptop to the beach ball of death…rebooted after about 5 minutes of that and get an endless series of restart/kernel panic/restart/kernel panic/ad nauseum. Tried booting into Recovery mode and Disk Utility said everything was fine but still kernel panicked when booting. At that point I got out my USB stick with the 10.8 Installer on it and reinstalled (Internet Recovery not feasible due to RV internet bandwidth as discussed above) followed the next morning by another trip to the library to redownload all the App Store stuff again and recreate my user account. Unfortunately; things still don't seem right…performances terrible and I did have that 50,000 copies of the keychain although I was able to get them to stop multiplying by deleting one bad entry from the keychain and then repairing it in Keychain Access. I'm seriously thinking about just starting fresh and redownloading everything in my home directory next week when we get fixed in one place for the next 3 months. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
