On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 10:23  PM, Dale Goodvin wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:38:16 -0800 (PST) Jeremy Derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday, Nov 15, 2002, at 07:34PM, Dale
>> Goodvin  wrote:
>>
>>> Please help;
>>>
>>> i've lost all of my settings in the dock:
>
>> you probably don't have access to your
>> ~/Library/ folder anymore. go back into root,
>> and
>>
>> chown -R .admin ~
>>
> Jeremy,
>
> what the heck are you talking about?

you said:
> i made the mistake of going into root while Trish was logged in, using 
> my
> administrator name and password and changing some privileges for home 
> folders.

by "going into root", what do you mean? Normally, this means you used 
the Terminal program and the commands 'chown' and perhaps 'chmod'.

if you just used Get-Info and entered your admin password, you in no 
way went into root - you just twiddled permissions as a non-root, admin 
user.

Basically....... everything you're seeing right now, that isn't how it 
should be, is stored in your home directory's "Library" folder. If, for 
any reason, OS X can't read the contents of your Library folder, you 
get default Docks, Desktops, etc.

Most likely, you either set Library (or your home directory as a whole) 
to be owned by someone else, or you took away your own read/write 
privileges to one or the other.

The easiest way to remedy this would be to run Terminal and type in:

sudo chown -R dgoodvin.admin ~ <return>
sudo chmod -R 755 ~ <return>

or just remember what you changed, and change it back.


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