My desktop is locked

[curtisj25]

"the folder desktop could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access priveleges"

I dont have no idea what i did
I have mac os x version 10.3.9 can someone please help me!

[curtisj25]

Last login: Wed Dec 24 14:47:51 on ttyp2
Welcome to Darwin!
admins-Computer:~ katharine$ cd Desktop
-bash: cd: Desktop: Permission denied
admins-Computer:~ katharine$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 katharin katharin 102 26 Jul 2003 Applications
drwx------ 11 501 admin 374 23 Dec 01:20 Desktop
drwx------ 72 katharin katharin 2448 2 Nov 15:56 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 5 katharin katharin 170 26 Nov 17:44 Incomplete
drwx------ 24 katharin katharin 816 4 Dec 16:56 Library
drwx------ 3 katharin katharin 102 23 Jun 2005 Movies
drwx------ 5 katharin katharin 170 26 Aug 2005 Music
drwx------ 30 katharin katharin 1020 4 Dec 16:15 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 4 katharin katharin 136 23 Jun 2005 Public
drwxr-xr-x 1439 katharin katharin 48926 26 Nov 17:42 Shared
drwxr-xr-x 5 katharin katharin 170 23 Jun 2005 Sites
-rw-r--r-- 1 katharin katharin 0 27 Jul 21:50 jagex_runescape_preferences.dat
admins-Computer:~ katharine$

[Giaguara]

Are you logged in as katharine while you are trying to access katharin's files? The prompt shows katharine, the user details katharin.
drwx------ or drwx------+ is the correct permissions for the Desktop...
Did you try these? My Desktop Is Locked!!!!! Help!!!! Please!!!

[fryke]

The + sign should not show up on 10.3.x, I believe, because that's the ACL representation in 10.5, isn't it?

[Giaguara]

Or anywhere where you enabled ACL manually (I did that on 10.4..)

[fryke]

So... the current guess would be that the user changed her shortname accidentally/intentionally and is having problems now - or that there are actually two user folders, one named katharine and one katharin?

[DeltaMac]

- the Desktop is owned by admin, and not katherin(e)
You need to change the ownership of that Desktop folder.

[VirtualTracy]

Originally Posted by curtisj25

"the folder desktop could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access priveleges"

I dont have no idea what i did
I have mac os x version 10.3.9 can someone please help me!

We had a similar thread here a while ago (2006) where the user also ran Panther and saw the exact error message as you:

My Desktop Is Locked!!!!! Help!!!! Please!!!

The advice that was given involved some Terminal coding and although it didn't appear to resolve the issue ... after the OP simply created a New Folder on the Desktop it was apparent that the issue had been rectified and the permissions appeased ....