At 5:38 PM -0500 01/15/2006, Adam Mizelle wrote:
PLEASE learn to bottom post.
PLEASE remember to delete the extra footers.
Top posting makes it extremely difficult to track context.
>At 6:37 PM -0500 01/11/2006, Adam Mizelle wrote:
Another mac, running Panther, will not open my user profile. It is
one of three, which still work fine. Please help me either to get
at the data in it or to get the thing working again. My Thunderbird
addresses were there and I've learned how much I rely on them to get
work done.
You have admin access?
Open /Users
Select the broken user's folder.
Do a Get Info (cmd-I).
>Click the Details arrow under Ownership & Permissions.
>Click the padlock and supply your admin pwd, as prompted.
Change the folder's owner to the current user.
Click "Apply to enclosed items...".
>
Now you can reach in and move things around as you see fit.
Thank you for the suggestion. So far it is not working. All three
user profiles have are "admin", but after doing the steps below, a
dialog tells me I don't have access privelages.
The three user accounts DO NOT NEED to have admin privileges.
In fact, you should have only ONE account that has admin privs. And
that account should be unused, except when you're installing system
updates or doing maintenance. Use regular user accounts for all your
day-to-day activities.
The steps above work in Panther. Perhaps you're not selecting the
right user name???? Let me give you a more hard-core example.
I have three accounts. The first has admin privs, and is called
"xadminx". The 2nd is called "dan", the 3rd is called "paul".
Suppose "paul" is broken. So I want to grab his files from "dan".
Login using "dan".
Open Macintosh HD.
Open Users
Now I can see four folders: dan, paul, xadminx, and Shared.
Select "paul".
Select File/Get-Info (or press cmd-i)
Click the Details arrow under Ownership & Permissions.
Click the padlock and supply the username xadminx and its password.
Change the folder's owner from paul to dan.
Make sure the access field below that says "read & write".
Click "Apply to enclosed items...".
Confirm the "are you sure" dialog.
Now, I can open the folder "paul" and do anything I want to those files.
- Dan.
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