Re: Home folder near "capacity"

rwx means that the owner (user) has read, write, and execute permissions to the directory. Execute permission is required to display the directory contents. The blanks might show two more "rwx" items, first for the group and last for everyone. Thank you, Doug. Execute permission is not

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

Here's a decent explanation of what you see in the 'ls -l' command: Thanks, Bruce. Interesting story about "wheel." Truth is stranger than fiction. Here I was, thinking it might have to do with Linda Ronstadt's "Heart Like A Wheel," or Stealers Wh

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

At 15:31 -0700 6/17/11, Bruce Johnson wrote some good stuff: At 17:04 -0500 6/17/11, Sean Carroll wrote: > >"drwx--+" describes type of permission, I think. the d indicates a directory. rwx means that the owner (user) has read, write, and execute permissions to the directory. Execute permis

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: > "19 Sean2 wheel 646" I'm not sure about. "19" might be an identifier > or an actual quantity of something. No, it must be a quantity. "646" might be > a number of directories or folders. What is "wheel"? Here's a decent explanation o

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

In retrospect, I could have solved my problem more quickly and easily. This solution (for OS X 10.4 and of uncertain applicability to my 10.5.8) seems more complicated than it has to be: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24068 There was a simple answer to my original question of how to change

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

Open a terminal window. Change to the base directory.cd /Users/seancarroll chown to the name you want chown -R seancarr:seancarr * Thanks, Ralph (and Bruce) - always appreciate opportunities to learn more about what I can do in Terminal. When I try reading at length about it in the

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

Are you serious? 10^9 files requires a 30 bit integer to count them. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Apple's disk image structure can't handle it with 32 bit unsigned integers. No, 1 billion was a gross exaggeration. I wasn't being serious and literal. Always on the lookout for dry se

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

At 20:35 -0500 6/14/11, Sean Carroll wrote, and I snipped: >The daunting thing was realizing that were still approximately >1 billion files to check/change permissions on - and this just to TEST >the theory that it would work. Are you serious? 10^9 files requires a 30 bit integer to count them

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

1. Log in as the account user. 2. Use Security preferences to turn off File Vault (you will be logged out during the process). 3. Log in with the account again. 4. Use Security preferences to turn FileVault back on (you will be logged out during the process). When you do step 2 do

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

Can you, logged in as Sean2 get into the Sean folder? I was able to at one point, but now that Sean folder is locked, don't know why. If not, try this: Last login: Tue Jun 14 18:00:01 on ttys000 Seans-Power-Mac-G4-Leopard:~ Sean2$ sudo -s WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could l

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

1. Log in as the account user. 2. Use Security preferences to turn off File Vault (you will be logged out during the process). 3. Log in with the account again. 4. Use Security preferences to turn FileVault back on (you will be logged out during t

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: > Sorry all about the HTML last message - this is from Sean2, where my mail > settings are a little out of whack. > >> Having never messed with it, I don't know; can you move folders out of your >> home directory to elsewhere on the hard drive?

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

Sorry all about the HTML last message - this is from Sean2, where my mail settings are a little out of whack. Having never messed with it, I don't know; can you move folders out of your home directory to elsewhere on the hard drive? Yes. You can copy the FileVaulted stuff to the root level

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

From the Sean2 account: Last login: Tue Jun 14 16:53:20 on ttys000 Seans-Power-Mac-G4-Leopard:~ Sean2$ pwd /Users/Sean2 Seans-Power-Mac-G4-Leopard:~ Sean2$ From the Sean account, the pwd is Sean. Does Sean or Sean2 hold your stuff? You mean "my stuff as i know it?" That would be Sean. The Se

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: >> seems to say that with File Vault you >> are always talking to a disk image that was likely established with a >> maximum size. > > Thank you, Doug. The irony here is that in order to disable FileVault, I

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: > Thank you, Bruce. > > Terminal says: > > Last login: Tue Jun 14 15:07:32 on ttys000 > Seans-Power-Mac-G4-Leopard:~ Sean$ ls -l /Users > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x@ 15 Anyone Anyone 510 Apr 25 19:12 Anyone > drwx--+ 32 SeanSean1156 Jun

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

seems to say that with File Vault you are always talking to a disk image that was likely established with a maximum size. Thank you, Doug. The irony here is that in order to disable FileVault, I am being asked - well, required - to create more space in

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

Thank you, Bruce. Terminal says: Last login: Tue Jun 14 15:07:32 on ttys000 Seans-Power-Mac-G4-Leopard:~ Sean$ ls -l /Users total 0 drwxr-xr-x@ 15 Anyone Anyone 510 Apr 25 19:12 Anyone drwx--+ 32 SeanSean1156 Jun 14 14:27 Sean drwxrwxrwx+ 18 Sean2 staff612 Jun 14 13:09 Sean2

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

I don't really think your home directory is limited but for changing permissions you should consider using Terminal.app. I know, I know. Apple doesn't really like that. seems to say that with File Vault you are always talking to a disk image that was likely

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Sean Carroll wrote: > Sawtooth 1.6 GHz 2 GB RAM running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 > > Oh man, do I need help. Is there a way to change all the read/write > permissions for every file and folder in a Home folder all at once? > Please say there is. First thing to do is

Re: Home folder near "capacity"

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 11:52 -0700, Sean Carroll wrote: > Sawtooth 1.6 GHz 2 GB RAM running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 > > Oh man, do I need help. Is there a way to change all the read/write > permissions for every file and folder in a Home folder all at once? > Please say there is. Howdy, It is fai

Home folder near "capacity"

Sawtooth 1.6 GHz 2 GB RAM running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Oh man, do I need help. Is there a way to change all the read/write permissions for every file and folder in a Home folder all at once? Please say there is. I just found out that a Home folder can have a "capacity" other than that of the H