Ronni Thanks for this. I did have a backup of the drive but unfortunately after having the machine for more than a month I think the technician got exasperated and just wanted to see the back of it. So, I got a new hard drive which was, unfortuantely, a little noisier than the original and also the install was done on a new user account which did not have the same name as the old one.
So, perhaps this is the source of the permissions problems. I did the id command and got the following: admins-imac:~ adam3$ id uid=501(adam3) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),101(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),204(_developer),100(_lpoperator),98(_lpadmin),81(_appserveradm),80(admin),79(_appserverusr),61(localaccounts),12(everyone),401(com.apple.access_screensharing) admins-imac:~ adam3$ Thanks for your help. Adam Begin forwarded message: > Hi Adam, > > On 17/05/2010, at 12:03 PM, Adam Lippiatt wrote: > >> Thanks Ronda >> >> I will look into that. Unfortunately when the hard drive died I had to do a >> lot of manual shifting of things as the service people could only give me a >> fresh install with the data sitting in folders on the desktop. As time goes >> by I am getting through all of the little issues. > > Hmmm, this doesn't sound good to me. From reading above, I take it you did > not have a 'Backup' of the Drive before it was corrupted? > If the service people have just given you what they recovered from the > corrupted drive … and you are trying to copy these files onto the fresh > install, there could be corruption in some of the files. > > Did you create an 'exact' User Account on the Fresh Install as the 'User' you > had on the original hard drive? > If you didn't, you will run into Permission problems, as you will find the > UID & GID are not the same. > > Mac OS X displays the user name of the account that owns a folder or file, > it’s easy to assume that that account with that user name owns the item. In > reality, it’s not quite so simple. > The owner is actually determined by a number called the UID—the user > identification number, not by the user name. > In addition the group is, in fact, determined by the GID—the group > identification number. > > To reveal your account’s UID and primary GID, type id in a Terminal window > (and then press Return). > The output of the id command looks like this: > ronni$ id > uid=501(ronni) gid=20(staff) > groups=20(staff),204(_developer),100(_lpoperator),98(_lpadmin),81(_appserveradm),80(admin),79(_appserverusr),61(localaccounts),12(everyone),401(com.apple.access_screensharing) _____________________ Adam Lippiatt [email protected] 0402 301 706 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
