> of the large partition "Big Drive", and seeing that my mail disappeared
> as well as my bookmarks, I thought I'd revert back so I enabled the
> root user and logged in as root, and deleted the newly created users as
> well as my own user directory (after creating a new admin user). But
> now that I am logging in again as admin with a fresh user folder, I am
> told that I do not have any privileges to read all of my old files!
Log in as that user.
Open Terminal.app.
Type the command:
chown -R username ~
with "username" replaced by your short user name.
The problem was that you created a disk named "Big Drive", and Mike Bombich
didn't think about someone doing that when he wrote that help file. The UNIX
shell uses spaces to separate parts of a command, so when running commands
at the shell prompt, you need to put any names with spaces in them in
doublequotes, like this:
sudo ditto -rsrcFork /Users "/Volumes/Big Drive/Users"
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/username home \
"/Volumes/Big Drive/Users/username"
Or just call it something shurter, like "Jumbo". :)
Also, you need to do something like this after creating a new user, if you
have to follow their directions to create the user's home directory.
sudo chown -R username ~username
This will make sure that the (as you found out) necessary permissions are
in place when that user logs in.
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