Hi Chris, As Peter mentioned previously and Neil has also indicated you seem to be experiencing Owner Permission problems. - this is not normal behaviour for Mavericks, unless you are copying into, or creating a folder in, a secured area such as /System or /Library.
First, some background: With Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and later, Apple made the startup drive system-owned. You can see this in action by selecting your startup drive in the Finder, pressing Command-I, and then looking down at the bottom of the resulting Info window (in the Sharing & Permissions area). You’ll see that the first entry is system followed by wheel and then everyone. system has Read & Write permissions while wheel and everyone are marked Read Only. Navigate to the Documents folder inside your user folder, perform this same Command-I trick, and your name will appear as the top entry in this area and you’ll have Read & Write permissions. The upshot of this is that when you drag a file on top of your startup drive’s icon, you’ll be asked to authenticate this action with your username and password. And you will be because you’re you and not system. Now, from what you are indicating to us similar behaviour is happening when moving files in your User Directory... Home Folder. Without knowing how you did the "Setup of your New iMac and Transfer from your old Snow Leopard MBP" we can't be sure how to advise you to correct this problem... yet! So please give us thorough information how you did the 'Setup & Transfer from old to new'. Also do a Command-I on the Macintosh HD - look under 'Sharing & Permissions' - let us know if you have system: - Read & Write, wheel - Read only, everyone - Read only Do a Command-I on your User Directory (Home Folder) Macintosh HD > Users > chris (or whatever your user short name is) and let us know if you have chris (Me) - Read & Write, staff - Read only, everyone - Read only Cheers, Ronni On 7 Oct 2014, at 11:39 am, Chris Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Thanks very much for your reply to this, as it is beginning to drive me nuts! > My Machine a 27" imac with 3.5 ghz i7 processors, 16gb ram and Mavericks > 10.9.4 and using the bluetooth mouse and keyboard which is taking some > getting use to as well! Maybe it is this mouse which feels completely > different from my standard two click wheel mouse? > > Some examples of what is happening: > I open 2 finder windows, and do click, drag and drop a pdf file from one > folder across to another. The file is copied and not moved as it would be in > 10.6.8? > > From the same folder, (Better Photog 14) I click and drag a psd file that I > want to move to the other folder and the 'authenticate' window pops up (see > below): > > <image.png> > > I try again with other psd and jpg's from this and other folders to drag into > another one and the same message appears, so I have to type and retype my > password for each drag action!! > > I then plugged in my 3tb WD back up drive to move other images to my imac > with the same message appearing! However when I dragged and dropped onto the > drive it worked ok? > > I hope this helped a bit Pete, as it is quite perplexing to say the least > > Many thanks > > Chris > > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Peter Hinchliffe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 6 Oct 2014, at 11:53 am, Chris Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Good day WA muggers, > > > > Its sure nice to be back in the Southwest after 2 months offshore of > > West Africa! > > > > Im only now beginning to use my new imac with Mavericks and noticing > > quite a bit of difference from OS 10.6 on my MBPro!! > > > > One thing that Im not sure how to change, is when I need to rename > > folders or are transferring image files from my backup drive to the > > imac I always have an 'authentication window' pop for me to enter my > > password! > > > > I have looked in the Finder and System prefs but cant find anywhere to > > change this from occuring. > > > > Any advice is much appreciated for my limited Mavericks experience > > > > > > Not sure what is happening here. The behaviour as you describe it is not > normal for Mavericks, unless you are copying into, or creating a folder in, a > secured area such as /System or /Library. Finder's behaviour in Mavericks in > this regard has not changed from what you're used to in Snow Leopard. A few > more details are required in order to comment further. > > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 046 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. >
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