Big permissions problem after copying my X partition......HELP

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Blofeld

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Hi,

I have the following problem:
Since I exchanged the harddisk, I had to make a copy of my x partition.
I did this with carbon copy cloner.
After I copied the files back, also with ccc, I was not able to boot back into X, just got a grey screen.
After checking I found out that all the permissions were messed up.
( My mistake was, obviously, that I used CCC from a different computer with my system disk in firewire target disk mode and not used as startup disk...)
So now I set the permissions for the system folder back to
"drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel " since I did that I was able to boot back into X again.
But I get the "login: setgroups: Operation not permitted....." message when I try to open the Terminal with my non root account.
Now my question is: Is it easier to reset all permissions for every folder (and if yes, to what ?)
or to reinstall X and copy all my old files back to the new system (I had a nice running system with a lot of prefs and other modifications...)

Thanks for every help for my newbie self :)
 
I'm afraid you have fallen victim to a similar issue that a few other Mac OSX newbies have also. If you try to reset the permissions manually you have no way of knowing which files belong to which user & group, and with what individual setups. If you set all the permissions to one user, your system will be unusable also, even if you set them to root. Specific files are designed to run under specific ownerships.

Your best solution is to redo the carbon copy clone while booted correctly FROM the volume you are cloning, as you stated, and clone your OSX volume to your backup volume. This will retain all ownership and permission structures intact.

Good luck.

JeffCGD
 
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