On Dec 20, 2012, at 2:02 PM, JohnV <vengbj...@verizon.net> wrote: > Following you as best I can here's what I got: > > > Last login: Thu Dec 20 13:58:45 on ttyp1 > Welcome to Darwin! > new-host:~ johnvengrouskie$ cd /Volumes/<G5 HD2 Sg2t> > -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' > new-host:~ johnvengrouskie$ cd /Volumes/<G5\ HD2\ SG2T> > -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
Oops, forgot to tell you that the <>'s were illustrative! Sorry! > new-host:~ johnvengrouskie$ cd /Volumes/G5\ HD2\ SG2T > new-host:/Volumes/G5 HD2 SG2T johnvengrouskie$ ls -al > total 688 > drwxrwxrwx 23 johnveng johnveng 884 Dec 18 15:49 . > drwxrwxrwt 10 root admin 340 Dec 18 15:41 .. > -rw-rw-rw- 1 johnveng johnveng 21508 Dec 20 13:50 .DS_Store > drw-rw-rw- 7 root johnveng 238 Dec 18 15:41 .Spotlight-V100 > drwxrwxrwt 3 johnveng johnveng 102 Nov 29 2011 .TemporaryItems > drwxrwxrwt 3 root admin 102 Dec 18 15:41 .Trashes > -rw-rw-rw- 1 johnveng johnveng 0 Nov 24 2011 > .com.apple.timemachine.supported > -rw-rw-rw- 1 johnveng johnveng 0 Dec 18 15:48 > .com.bombich.ccc.start_time > drwxrwxrwx 3 johnveng johnveng 102 Nov 24 2011 AA DRESCUE WORK > drwxrwxrwx 4 johnveng johnveng 136 Dec 5 2011 AA TEMP BACKUP OF g5 > drwxrw-rw- 5 johnveng johnveng 170 Sep 9 16:51 Desktop Ok, I think I know what's going on here, this is your old user account? I suspect the issue is that your userid (not username, but the numeric userID that OS X actually uses to know who you are) is different on the old sytem, and so the Finder thinks you shouldn't be able to get in there, even though you can. You see the same thing if you create another user on your mac, and then go into the Users folder and get into the other user's directory, you see the same - signs This cab be fixed, probably, by takeing ownership via a command in Terminal: (and this time it's the exact command, you can copy and paste this line) sudo chown -R johnveng:johnveng /Volumes/G5\ HD2\ SG2T This CHanges OWNership, recursively, of all the files in that directory to your username and default group (as of 10.3 or 10.4 your default group is a group with the same name as your user directory) This should get rid of the - signs -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
