Michael,

> I had a couple of goes at changing permissions through Terminal yesterday.
> Some changed, some didn't. I'll give your script a go. I understand the bit
> about substituting "old" and "new" user account names, but do I use the
> quotation marks around the names,
NO
> and do I use the ; after \?
YES

This script is from the MacWorld article.

Regards,
John
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