Unable to change Ownership & Permissions

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wintersun

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Hi there,

I am no longer able to change Ownership & Permissions at all. Whenever I go through Get Info it just tells me whether I can Read Only, Read & Write or whatever. There is no longer a lock to unlock or any options or anything.

Any suggestions?


Always,

Jamie
 
wintersun,

Welcome to MacOSX.com. _This won't fix your problem_, but I do have a suggestion. Take the space out of your hard drive's name (G4HardDrive).
Spaces in hard drive names have been known to sometimes cause problems.
 
Is this problem just on the Itineraries file, or all files?

Did you set any Security options for this file in the Excel preferences?
 
Wow, thanks for all your responses.

I'm not currently logged in as administrator, but it is the same when I am. And yes, this happens for ALL files and folders.

I have recently repaired Disk Permissions, which took a few attempts because it turned out I was using the wrong install disk. My thinking is that this problem occurred as a result of one of the (aborted) attempts to Repair Disk Permissions with the wrong disk.
 
In the User Folder, click on your User name and Get Info. Down in Ownership & Permissions click Details so the arrow points down. Set it for Read & Write. Click the button that says Apply to enclosed items and see if that works.
 
Hiya,

Just tried this with my login and the administrator login, and still there's no down arrow to click.

I'm thinking of reinstalling OS X. Would this be a good idea at this point?


Always,

Jamie
 
Also, always repair permissions while booted from your hard drive, using Disk Utility in your Applications/Utilities folder
 
wintersun,

I guess I'd just be sure that it's actually an administrator account. If you still aren't getting the down arrow . . . Hmm????

This will not probably solve your fundamental problem, but there is a free (I believe) program called BatChmod that allows you to change permissions on files.

Doug
 
Thanks DK.

The thing is this - there's only two logins for this computer and that's happening for both of them, so if neither of us is the administrator...hmmm.

Thanks for the BatChmod info. I'll look into it.

You guys are great!!
 
Hmm.. well, if an administrator account isn't doing the trick, you could use.. the root account. It's disabled by default because, well, it's the most powerful account on your mac. Here's how to enable it. From there, you could change ownerships.

For terminal stuff, you can just type "su" to login as root.
 
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