Hi Sarah, You might just try the second (long) command by itself. You can copy it to a TextEdit window, then review it. Then try opening Terminal and pasting it in by itself and pressing return. That's the one for: chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/ ~/Desktop ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Library ~/Movies ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Public
I think there are preference settings that Travis once outlines that make it easier to use Terminal. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 25, 2012, at 11:10 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > I'll try this out. > > thanks for this. I'm not well versed ib the terminal but I"m slowly learning. > > gain thanks for this > On Feb 25, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Sarah and Jim, >> >> I found a discussion in the Apple Support forums that talks about this >> permissions problem under Lion, and steps that people have taken to solve >> it. The described symptoms sound familiar -- for example, preferences not >> being saved. The solution involves using Terminal to type in a command >> that sets permissions for your home folder so that you have read and write >> access, but so that everyone else has only read access. Since I'm newly >> using Lion, and not having this permissions problem, I'm not able to try >> this out. >> >> Here are the instructions. (I'm pasting in the version "for less >> experienced users"): >> <begin quote> >> For less experienced terminal users, these are more explicit instructions to >> follow cgDesign's method from page 1: >> >> Step 0: >> Be sure to complete ALL steps >> >> Step 1: >> Open the application Terminal.app (Utilities folder inside of your >> applications folder) >> >> Step 2: >> when the prompt comes up, on the line that ends in "$", paste in (exactly) >> >> chmod -R -N ~ >> >> and hit the enter key on your keyboard, and wait a couple of minutes for >> this to complete. You may see several messages regarding invalid arguments - >> these are OK. >> >> Step 3: >> When the prompt ending in "$" returns, paste in (exactly) >> >> chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/ ~/Desktop ~/Documents >> ~/Downloads ~/Library ~/Movies ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Public >> >> When the prompt ending in "$" returns, you have completed all steps. You can >> quit Terminal.app. >> <end quote> >> >> There is some debate about whether using the first command is necessary. >> The second command with the "everyone deny delete" argument is what fixes >> the permissions issue. Both use the "chmod" command -- spelled "c h m o d" >> -- which changes the file mode access bits (permissions), and/or modifies >> access control lists associated with these files. Unix is case sensitive, >> and inserting spaces between keys to commands -- like the hyphen and capital >> letter R, or the hyphen and capital letter N in the first command -- alters >> the meaning of the command. Instead of applying the command recursively to >> subfolders, which is what the "-R" key indicates, typing the "R" with a >> space before it would turn it into an argument -- a (non-existent) folder >> with the name "R" in the present directory. The tilde symbol is preceded by >> a space, because this is the argument to the command, and is the shorthand >> way of indicating the current user's home directory. >> >> All Terminal commands are entered by pressing the "return" key after you've >> typed the line. >> >> So, Sarah, open a Terminal session in Finder: >> 1. Command-Shift-U to go to "Utilities", press "t" to go to Terminal, and >> Command-Down arrow to launch Terminal >> 2. In the Terminal window, type or paste in: >> chmod -R -N ~ >> then press return. (That's the chmod command, followed by a space, followed >> by hyphen capital R, followed by a space, followed by hyphen capital N, >> followed by a space, followed by the tilde symbol.) >> 3. Wait a few minutes for this to complete, and ignore error messages. >> 4. Type or paste in: >> chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/ ~/Desktop ~/Documents ~/Downloads >> ~/Library ~/Movies ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Public >> >> then press return. (That's the chmod command, followed by a space, filed by >> a plus sign and small letter a, followed by the three words in quotes, >> "everyone deny delete", followed by a space, followed by a list of folders >> in your home directory, all separated by spaces. These arguments all begin >> with a tilde symbol followed by a slash, which indicates your top level home >> directory. So in addition to tilde slash by itself as the first argument, >> you'll be typing tilde slash before all the default folders that should >> appear in your home directory: Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, >> Movies, Music, Pictures, and Public. The names of all these folders begin >> with a capital letter. The command is a single line. >> >> 5.Wait a while for the last command to be executed, then quite your Terminal >> app with Command-q. >> >> Sarah, this should fix your not being able to write to the Documents folder >> on your home directory. For some reason, your permissions access was being >> superseded, so that either the system or some other application could change >> the permissions to those folders, locking you out. Either the system access >> control lists or default permissions were not set correctly, so repairing >> permissions didn't fix this. This would also explain why preferences >> weren't being saved, since you wouldn't be able to write to the files in >> your account's Library folder. >> >> Probably one person should try this out to see whether this works. I'll >> give the URL of the Apple Support Forum thread that discusses this. It's >> titled "Lion Permissions Problem": >> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3202084?start=0&tstart=0 >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Feb 25, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: >> >>> Actually I want to know the same thing. I was afraid to ask so thanks for >>> doing this. I have this every time I move or copy a folder. >>> >>> thanks all for any ideas. >>> On Feb 25, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Jim Noseworthy wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Folks: >>>> >>>> I must have done something somewhere because every time I copy a file, I >>>> need to authenticate myself. >>>> >>>> How do I overcome this issue gang? >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! 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