Hello... first post on this forum. Really in a bind here, so I hope someone has some thoughts on this one!
I'm running 10.5.1. After a snafu using disk utility to repair file permissions (booted off of an external drive running 10.4 to do a disk repair and did permissions at the same time... seems to have caused this issue), I now have this issue wherein new files I create do not show up as owned by me. Instead, they are owned by system. Without modification of some settings, I cannot modify these files at all... which is just a TAD of an inconvenience when trying to do any work.
Here's how permissions on the newly created files show up:
When they SHOULD be:
I can modify and save one of these newly-created problematic files only if I do the following in the "Get Info" box:
1. Add myself as a user with permissions on the file,
2. Set those permissions to read & write, and
3. Change the ownership of the file (via that little gear icon at the very bottom) to me.
If I don't do all of that, it won't let me save it. If I do it all, it will.
But here's where it gets strange again: As soon as I've saved the modified file, those permissions revert. So even though I still have the file open and have JUST saved it, I cannot modify it and save it again. If I try, it tells me I don't have permissions. And if I look at the permissions again, they've reverted and I am no longer even a user on the file. So they're locked somehow, and changes don't "take."
Trying to repair permissions again off of the 10.5 boot volume has not fixed the issue.
Oh, and one more thing... I can't get OnyX to work. It gives me the following errors:
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
I'm running 10.5.1. After a snafu using disk utility to repair file permissions (booted off of an external drive running 10.4 to do a disk repair and did permissions at the same time... seems to have caused this issue), I now have this issue wherein new files I create do not show up as owned by me. Instead, they are owned by system. Without modification of some settings, I cannot modify these files at all... which is just a TAD of an inconvenience when trying to do any work.
Here's how permissions on the newly created files show up:
When they SHOULD be:
I can modify and save one of these newly-created problematic files only if I do the following in the "Get Info" box:
1. Add myself as a user with permissions on the file,
2. Set those permissions to read & write, and
3. Change the ownership of the file (via that little gear icon at the very bottom) to me.
If I don't do all of that, it won't let me save it. If I do it all, it will.
But here's where it gets strange again: As soon as I've saved the modified file, those permissions revert. So even though I still have the file open and have JUST saved it, I cannot modify it and save it again. If I try, it tells me I don't have permissions. And if I look at the permissions again, they've reverted and I am no longer even a user on the file. So they're locked somehow, and changes don't "take."
Trying to repair permissions again off of the 10.5 boot volume has not fixed the issue.
Oh, and one more thing... I can't get OnyX to work. It gives me the following errors:
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!