I lost my permissions PLEASE HELP!

[kenet1k]

n terminal I accidentally moved my user library and it completely ruined my user preferences, I lost all of my bookmarks, my taskbar, everything.

So I tried moving the library folder back to its original place and of course I couldnt because certain tasks were still running, so I logged in as root and was successful in moving everything back to ~/Users/kenetik/Library and I ran the disk utility and fixed permissions, now when I log back in, it seems as if I didnt move the files back into the library, but they all show up and are there but I dont have permission to do anything to them, half of the folders have a little red dot on the bottom right corner, and when I try to run adium and other programs it tells me I dont have the right permissions.

What am I doing wrong here, how do i fix this? PLEASE HELP!

 

[billbaloney]

You need to change the ownership of all files to your user. So if, for instance, your user name is "kinet1k", this is what you do:

1. Log in as root, or boot into single-user mode.
2. In a shell:

% chown -R kinet1k ~kinet1k/Library

That should do it.

Then, as soon as you've fixed this, back up your machine. The next time this happens you should just restore from a recent backup.