On Dec 17, 2004, at 1:47 AM, Katzy wrote:
So the drive called it quits soon after my original post on the subject. I was able to drop in a new drive (Western Digital w/ 3 yr. warrantee) and restore all my data (Retrospect Express 6.0.195 / DVD-rw) in half a day...
But now I have *weird* permissions issues: A good percentage of my stuff (including lots of stuff in my home folder) came back w/ owner set to "system"-- So I have to manually go in and change each file and folder to access it. It's making me a little nuts because often something won't work and I have to hunt down the one file that's causing the problem.
Is there any way to automate this?
To change permissions on your home directory, fire up terminal and do this:
cd /Users sudo chown -R <username>:<group name> <directory name>
The -R tells it to change the entire directory hierarchy in the folder. Substitute your user name and group in the command. In 10.3 your group is the same as your username, in 10.2, (I think!) for admin users it's 'admin'. I don't remember offhand.
I'm guessing this is a bug or a bad setting with Retrospect.
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