On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 12:11 AM, Jeremy Derr wrote: > > 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. > You are absolutely right: i have lost ownership of my Home Directory: when i log in as the root user and give write/read privileges only to the owner of the "document" folder in my home directory, i cannot open it. i can only open folders that I've given the privilege to do so to "everyone"
are you sure I should type in "dgoodvin" or should it be my "short name" "dalegood" which appears to be the name of my home directory?? as far as remembering what I changed, i can't think of anything I did to change the ownership of my own directory; does that mean that the only way I can regain ownership is to do the Terminal message you suggested? thanks, dale g -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
