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ok, today I tried to copy the files to an external disk drive, and user nobody was already gone with the wind. I simply copied them back to my mac and problem seems resolved. still no idea what went wrong.. but happy i found some solution. :-)

hi again, it seems that I was too fast crying victory... there are still some subfolders that I can not change the owner. When I try to chown them in terminal I get the messages: permission denied and operation not permitted.. :-o

thx guys, i solved the problem, ... just funny that the empty folders in the path are still inaccesible, but that's not really a problem... also still wondering where the problem came from.. is there a relation between apache webserver and logmein? anyway thx a lot!

so, what is the solution? anybody?

In fact it's not my mac mini, but a mac mini of a colleague of me. In fact I am the only one in the office who is a little bit nerdy with mac's and pc's ;-). These files are old archive files in a folder on the desktop, with many many subfolders. In the past there were no problems at all with...

I have no acces anymore to some of my folders/files. The user who has acces now is called "nobody". When I get info on a folder It's still possible to change the owner to my own user account, but i have to manually do this for all subfolders, "apply settings to enclosed items" does not seem...