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Permissions Problem
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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My wife's 1stGen Unibody MacBook is giving her problems. When she tries to move files from the desktop to a folder in a Finder window, it reports that "The items cannot be moved because "folder name" cannot be modified" and then asks her to authenticate or cancel. Authenticating allows the operation, but it's a royal pain to have to do that every time.
That's bad enough. Now she can't open iTunes because the system reports "The folder "iTunes" is on a locked disk or you do not have write permissions for this folder."
I've repaired permissions, and Disk Utility DID find and correct some permissions, including some related to iTunes, but the problem persists.
I migrated her old iBook's data and programs onto the MacBook using Migration Assistant, and the only things that seemed to need authentication for access were her iBook folders.
So what permissions should her user account have? How can I fix this for her?
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Glenn -----
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Dec 2000
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If you're dealing with folders inside your home folder, Repair Permissions isn't going to touch those.
You could fix the owner with the Terminal:
sudo chown -R <username> /Users/<username>
Replace <username> with the short name for the user account. You need to be logged in as an admin to do this.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Nov 2000
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In my ~/ all folders belong to user simon and the group is also simon. Permissions are 700 for all folders except Public (730) and Sites (755).
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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It's 10.5, which came with the machine and has been kept up to date.
I'm going to try CharlesS' suggestion right away and see if that fixes things.
Moments later....
That seems to have fixed the iTunes issue. Oddly, now iTunes is running its setup assistant... But that's OK as long as it runs. We'll check out moving files later-she's kinda busy with the computer right now.
(Last edited by ghporter; Jul 26, 2009 at 09:51 AM.
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Glenn -----
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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You may want to erase, reinstall and then manually migrate over the files you want from the iBook. A number of people have reported problems due to migration assistant moves from PPC to Intel machines.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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If there are continued issues, I have really thought about nuking and starting from scratch. We'll see.
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Glenn -----
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