[BWSchultz]

Here's an interesting one:

I was having some catostrophic issues with my G5 and Tiger... kernal panics while doing anything, kernal panics during re-installation of Tiger... etc. After testing every piece of hardware I have, I detemined that it was bad RAM, the original Apple RAM installed. With only the 3rd party RAM installed, I was able to install 10.4, but I did it on the 2nd Hard Drive. The first hard drive used to hold the OS, but during this messing around, the OS was pretty wiped on drive #1.

I tried to install 10.4 back onto drive #1, now knowing it was RAM that was messed up, but it would only let me do a clean install, i.e. no ability to retain user accounts. So, I'm not running 10.4 on drive #2, but previous user accounts are on drive #1. I was able to access MY old user account on drive #1 (maybe because I'm using the same password and login as before) but my son's user folder is still protected. When I click on that folder, I get "The folder "his name" could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges."

How can I get back in there to give him his old files? It doesn't prompt for a password or anything. Can I get in via terminal and do a chmod or something similar to that directory? What if I do a "clean install" on drive #1? Will I have the same problem then or will I have complete access to everything on that drive? I guess I'm not quite sure what the clean install will do to the data on drive #1.

Thanks-
bwschultz

[msuper69]

Try making an account for him in the newly installed OS and then he might be able to access his files on the old system, just as you can access yours. Then he can move everything to the new OS, you can wipe the original drive and do with it as you wish.

[romeosc]

When you clean installed on drive 2 use migration assistant to transfer all users from drive 1