OT: how to restore my Mac?

2014-02-19 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB 
Hi,

I've just messed up my Mac. I executed by accident chmod in my root and gave
all users all permissions to all my files (what I actually didn't wanted).

I am not used to Macs, so what is the easiest way to restore all file
permissions? Is there any kind of reset to factory settings or what about
a restore from time machine, will that restore the file permissions, if the
files are older, or do I have to reinstall the system from scratch and if
how?

Thanks for any hints

Tiemo

 

 

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Re: OT: how to restore my Mac?

2014-02-19 Thread Pascal Lehner 
Hi Tiemo,

I don't have my Mac in front of me right now but as far as I remember
it does offer a reset permissions function.

Just found this, which should work:
http://macs.about.com/od/Troubleshooting/qt/Mac-Troubleshooting-Reset-User-Account-Permissions.htm
or, as I do, you can give ONYX a chance, it does offer similar and
more functions: http://www.onyxmac.com/
Backup first, as usual ;-)

Regards,
Pascal

2014-02-19 15:02 GMT+01:00 Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de:
 Hi,

 I've just messed up my Mac. I executed by accident chmod in my root and gave
 all users all permissions to all my files (what I actually didn't wanted).

 I am not used to Macs, so what is the easiest way to restore all file
 permissions? Is there any kind of reset to factory settings or what about
 a restore from time machine, will that restore the file permissions, if the
 files are older, or do I have to reinstall the system from scratch and if
 how?

 Thanks for any hints

 Tiemo





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AW: OT: how to restore my Mac?

2014-02-19 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB 
Thank you for your hints,
I tried both without success. I don't know what the reset user permissions
actually does, perhaps permissions of some standard folders, but I think
both tools can't restore the permissions of my personal folders, because
they can't know, what they have been. So I restored all files from an (too)
old backup and are now reinstalling the rest by hand.
Thanks
Tiemo


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 Betreff: Re: OT: how to restore my Mac?
 
 Hi Tiemo,
 
 I don't have my Mac in front of me right now but as far as I remember it
does
 offer a reset permissions function.
 
 Just found this, which should work:

http://macs.about.com/od/Troubleshooting/qt/Mac-Troubleshooting-Reset-User-
 Account-Permissions.htm
 or, as I do, you can give ONYX a chance, it does offer similar and more
 functions: http://www.onyxmac.com/ Backup first, as usual ;-)
 
 Regards,
 Pascal
 
 2014-02-19 15:02 GMT+01:00 Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de:
  Hi,
 
  I've just messed up my Mac. I executed by accident chmod in my root
  and gave all users all permissions to all my files (what I actually
didn't
 wanted).
 
  I am not used to Macs, so what is the easiest way to restore all file
  permissions? Is there any kind of reset to factory settings or what
  about a restore from time machine, will that restore the file
  permissions, if the files are older, or do I have to reinstall the
  system from scratch and if how?
 
  Thanks for any hints
 
  Tiemo
 
 
 
 
 
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