All the system folders that are usually invisible (tmp, user guides and information, usr, var, etc.) on the root of my Macintosh HD volume show up now.
I upgraded my hard drive a few days ago. I used carboncopy to clone the drive but accidently formatted the new hdd in the apple file system and not GUID. I didn't realize this however until I had already installed the new hard drive after the copy.. so basically I was running leopard on a drive formatted with the old apple files system. this shouldn't have been a major problem and it wasn't. Everything worked fine except Finder used to quit after it loaded when the computer booted. I would get an error message saying:
exc_bad_instruction (sigill)
0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
thread 14 crashed: (sometimes it would be 12)
0 0 + 4752148
Then finder would start again and everything would work like normal.
I erased my old hdd and used it as a Time Capsule. I backed up my system. To get rid of the error on startup I reformatted the new hdd with the proper file system, reinstalled os x, and restored my files and settings from my time machine backup. I did not do a complete restore, only restored the user account, files, network settings, and apps.
Now, I can see all the system folders on my system drive, and sometimes I get random encounters (as in when emptying the trash) with the "you need permission to do this message".. but if I enter my password, it works.
So I think I'm safe to say have have an admin user account (it says that in system prefs) but something is screwed up allowing me to see too much.. Normally this wouldn't bother me as I like to know/see things but I know my mac is reliable so I don't need to have constant access to it's inner workings. I just repaired the permissions on my system disk so hopefully that will fix the access privileges issues but it didn't fix the fact that I can view all the system folders.
Any help at all is appreciated. Thank you.
David
I upgraded my hard drive a few days ago. I used carboncopy to clone the drive but accidently formatted the new hdd in the apple file system and not GUID. I didn't realize this however until I had already installed the new hard drive after the copy.. so basically I was running leopard on a drive formatted with the old apple files system. this shouldn't have been a major problem and it wasn't. Everything worked fine except Finder used to quit after it loaded when the computer booted. I would get an error message saying:
exc_bad_instruction (sigill)
0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
thread 14 crashed: (sometimes it would be 12)
0 0 + 4752148
Then finder would start again and everything would work like normal.
I erased my old hdd and used it as a Time Capsule. I backed up my system. To get rid of the error on startup I reformatted the new hdd with the proper file system, reinstalled os x, and restored my files and settings from my time machine backup. I did not do a complete restore, only restored the user account, files, network settings, and apps.
Now, I can see all the system folders on my system drive, and sometimes I get random encounters (as in when emptying the trash) with the "you need permission to do this message".. but if I enter my password, it works.
So I think I'm safe to say have have an admin user account (it says that in system prefs) but something is screwed up allowing me to see too much.. Normally this wouldn't bother me as I like to know/see things but I know my mac is reliable so I don't need to have constant access to it's inner workings. I just repaired the permissions on my system disk so hopefully that will fix the access privileges issues but it didn't fix the fact that I can view all the system folders.
Any help at all is appreciated. Thank you.
David
