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tonewheel · May 19, 2005, 12:42 PM

Had to replace a failing hard drive on my G5 desktop. Was able to back everything off to a firewire Maxtor.

Five USER folders all copied back to the new drive flawlessly. But the sixth folder is being stubborn...that's my Music folder. The folders in the Music folder have the "NO" icon across them, exactly what you see when you try to access someone else's User folder.

I have screwed around with this and just cannot get access to my music...not with GET INFO, Diskwarrior, Permissions Repair, etc.

How can I get access to my music?

Chuckit · May 19, 2005, 01:32 PM

I'm confused about the setup here. Is it a user or a Music folder that's causing the problem?

tonewheel · May 19, 2005, 01:40 PM

Sorry...should have been clearer. It's a USER folder that I've named "Music".

Chuckit · May 19, 2005, 01:53 PM

Ah, I see. And the user Music can't access it? What does it say when you log in as that user and get info on the files? You say you can't access them with it, but I'm trying to figure out who it says can access them and why you can't change that. (Sorry for all the questions. It's just hard to solve a problem until you're sure what's going on.)

tonewheel · May 19, 2005, 02:14 PM

Here's what I did....

- Backed up all User folders from the failing drive onto an external FD drive.

- Installed a new HD in the computer, installed the OX (Tiger), reinstalled apps, etc., etc.

_ Finally, I created the User accounts using the same names as the one's that were on the original drive (and backed up onto the External FW HD.)

When I opened each of the backed-up User folders on the external FW HD, I copied those files and folders to the newly created User folders on the new HD. No problem...with the exception of my User folder named MUSIC. The folder contained within the Music user folder have the locked symbol, and that is my problem. I cannot access my music in order to drag it to the newly created user folder on the new HD. Strange,as none of the other backed-up User folders had the locked symbol on any of their folders.

Chuckit · May 19, 2005, 02:23 PM

What does it say when you log in as that user and get info on the files? You say you can't access them with it, but I'm trying to figure out who it says can access them and why you can't change that.

Detrius · May 21, 2005, 01:29 AM

This is not a "baffling" issue, as you have put it. If you Get Info on the folder in the Finder, it will tell you who owns the folder. The difficulty you are likely having is related to the fact that permissions are stored on the file system with respect to a numerical UID, which is assigned to each user in the order the user is created. Since you did a clean install of the OS and recreated the users, the only way this would work perfectly is if you recreated the users in exactly the order you had before--including extra users that may have been deleted. This is not a difficult issue to overcome. This can be resolved using the Get Info window in the Finder. This is what has been asked of you--who owns the folder to begin with? Why can't you just change it? If that doesn't work, there are ways to force this to happen in the terminal.

tonewheel · May 21, 2005, 07:30 AM

I am the Owner (under Get Info). However, OWNERSHIP & PERMISSIONS tells me, in the drop-down menu, that I have "No Access", and I cannot change that.

Baffling? Of course it is....to me.

Hal Itosis · May 21, 2005, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by tonewheel

I am the Owner (under Get Info). However, OWNERSHIP & PERMISSIONS tells me, in the drop-down menu, that I have "No Access", and I cannot change that.

When you say "I"... should we assume you mean:
(when loggen in as) the user whose name is 'Music' ?

You will need to run Terminal to fix this. (Well, that would be the easy way IMHO).
It would also be convenient if the user 'Music' has admin privileges. Is that the case?

You really should provide info like OSX version, name of FW disk, path to locked folder, (etc.)