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Lt Major Burns - Aug 18, 2005 - 8:24 am
My home folder denies me. every time i even single click it, before it is even highlighted, i get a message saying that i don't have sufficient priveleges. it's my home folder, and i'm the admin. i restarted, did a permissions fix (which found a few things) but won't let me in to the home folder still and now it has reset the desktop and all my settings. i am very scared about losing my documents, as these weren't backed up (i lost the back up).
when i get info for the Home folder, it says i have "no" access. owner is system. if i try and change the owner to "tom" or whatever, it switches back to system just as soon as a have clicked it. please help.
when i get info for the Home folder, it says i have "no" access. owner is system. if i try and change the owner to "tom" or whatever, it switches back to system just as soon as a have clicked it. please help.
DeltaMac - Aug 18, 2005 - 5:53 pm
Try this...
Open your terminal.
Type "sudo chown -R username /Users/username" without the quotes.
Be careful of the spaces, and the case (-R and -r and not the same)
replace username with your actual user name.
Press enter, it will ask for your admin password, and press enter again.
When this is complete, this will reset the ownership of your user folder to you.
After this is done, log out and log back in as the same user, or just restart your system.
Hopefully, this will let you back in. If not, let me know
- Dale
Open your terminal.
Type "sudo chown -R username /Users/username" without the quotes.
Be careful of the spaces, and the case (-R and -r and not the same)
replace username with your actual user name.
Press enter, it will ask for your admin password, and press enter again.
When this is complete, this will reset the ownership of your user folder to you.
After this is done, log out and log back in as the same user, or just restart your system.
Hopefully, this will let you back in. If not, let me know
- Dale
Lt Major Burns - Aug 19, 2005 - 3:08 pm
i logged in as root and changed the permissions. in the mentioned deletion process above, i lost my phot library. 4000 memories lost, and i'm so low. thanks for replying. i'm off to buy a 250gb backup disk.
DeltaMac - Aug 19, 2005 - 7:47 pm
There's almost never a reason to log in as a root user. As you can see, it's quite easy to completely ruin the permissions/ownership of your system. I never recommend anything beyond using the terminal. Anything that can be done as root user, you can do with simple commands using sudo to gain superuser status. Root user is too easy for most users - too easy to do things that you regret a few moments later. By then, it's too late to back out.
Let me know how it goes
- Dale
Let me know how it goes
- Dale
Lt Major Burns - Aug 20, 2005 - 7:29 pm
oh, no, i realised the fragility of being SuperUser! i very carefully went to my home folder, and "Got Info" for it, and changed the permission for the whole folder from what it was, to my shortname. i then logged out. terminal commands baffle me, and i'm currently on a dell as the g5 is not online.
as soon as i logged back into my orignal account, everything was back to normal, bar the missing photo library, and also the movie library. actually, now the movie folder has gone, image capture no longer works, as the Movie folder it wants to download to no longer exists, but it hasn't been told that it was deleted. i have created the folder again, and the system recognised it (the folder icon changed to the movie icon), yet image capture still doesn't work. this is the only way i can get videos from my camera (iLife 04), so could you think of anything that could solve this one?
as soon as i logged back into my orignal account, everything was back to normal, bar the missing photo library, and also the movie library. actually, now the movie folder has gone, image capture no longer works, as the Movie folder it wants to download to no longer exists, but it hasn't been told that it was deleted. i have created the folder again, and the system recognised it (the folder icon changed to the movie icon), yet image capture still doesn't work. this is the only way i can get videos from my camera (iLife 04), so could you think of anything that could solve this one?
DeltaMac - Aug 20, 2005 - 7:42 pm
What function of Image Capture does not work?
Can you launch Image Capture, and does the app stay running?
Or does it quit immediately?
If you can open Image Capture, check the preferences to see that plugging in a camera will start Image Capture, and not some other setting.
Can you control your video camera through iMovie for importing?
Can you launch Image Capture, and does the app stay running?
Or does it quit immediately?
If you can open Image Capture, check the preferences to see that plugging in a camera will start Image Capture, and not some other setting.
Can you control your video camera through iMovie for importing?
Lt Major Burns - Aug 20, 2005 - 7:51 pm
image capture functions mostly fine, but it fails at the point of download. i can select movies, and then when i press "download", it fails, saying 'cannot find folder "movies", please choose another'. the pull down menu for selection of folders shows no folder tree, it is unusually blank. i spotlit plist imiage capture, and trashed the three plists, open image capture again, and the promlem remained.
wait, i've just thought - i recreated the movie folder after this deletion of plists. brb.
right: user-created Movies folder still isn't recognised by IC, even after plist removal. however, i can download movies by dragging them to the desktop 1 at a time, this seems to have not done anything, but then the movie appears on the desktop, immediately followed by IC unexpectedly quitting.
it is a semi usable state, but i would prefer a fully functioning computer again....
wait, i've just thought - i recreated the movie folder after this deletion of plists. brb.
right: user-created Movies folder still isn't recognised by IC, even after plist removal. however, i can download movies by dragging them to the desktop 1 at a time, this seems to have not done anything, but then the movie appears on the desktop, immediately followed by IC unexpectedly quitting.
it is a semi usable state, but i would prefer a fully functioning computer again....
DeltaMac - Aug 20, 2005 - 8:39 pm
Short and to the point.
Repair disk permissions using Disk Utility, Repair permissions does not disturb your user folder, so also run the terminal command that I posted for you.
I think you are still struggling with file ownership in your user folder, and you may have further disrupted your user folder by not doing a full reassignment. Doing this from a Get Info window will not complete the process. The terminal command will help you out. Here it is, again...
Type "sudo chown -R username /Users/username" without the quotes.
Be careful of the spaces, and the case (-R and -r and not the same)
Replace username with your actual user name.
Press enter, it will ask for your admin password, and press enter again.
When this is complete, this will completely reset the ownership of your user folder to you.
After this is done, log out and log back in as the same user, or just restart your system.
- Dale
Repair disk permissions using Disk Utility, Repair permissions does not disturb your user folder, so also run the terminal command that I posted for you.
I think you are still struggling with file ownership in your user folder, and you may have further disrupted your user folder by not doing a full reassignment. Doing this from a Get Info window will not complete the process. The terminal command will help you out. Here it is, again...
Type "sudo chown -R username /Users/username" without the quotes.
Be careful of the spaces, and the case (-R and -r and not the same)
Replace username with your actual user name.
Press enter, it will ask for your admin password, and press enter again.
When this is complete, this will completely reset the ownership of your user folder to you.
After this is done, log out and log back in as the same user, or just restart your system.
- Dale
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