Finder permissions messed up?

I've got a MBP and running Lion 10.7.2. My wife has a MB and running the same.
A while ago I played around with 'file sharing' in system prefs on both computers (I wanted to access her computer from mine and vice versa) and allowed my user account access to her 'desktop' folder, then I applied these privileges to 'all enclosed items' a while back. I've learned there's a better way to allow access to each others computers and now just log in as each other's admin account for any file sharing we want to do to each other's computer.
I now am the only user account on my computer (admin), and the same for her on hers.
However, when I'm logged in on my MBP, Finder is now asking me for password now for any action I do to a folder. If I want to move a folder, it asks me to enter a password. If I want to delete a folder, same thing. It never use to do this. The even stranger thing is that on some 'older' folders, if I want to move them to another folder, it COPIES them automatically, rather then moving it entirely. This is not, obviously, what I want, and I have no idea what has happened. New folders I create, there isn't a problem. It's almost as if, when I was adding my wife as a user account on my computer a while ago and giving her permission to access my desktop (and all enclosed items) it created some kind of weird permissions issue.
The same thing is happening on her MB too.
We've deleted all user accounts on the computers (except, obviously, for the sole admin account).
I've verified and repaired permissions and nothing works.
Does anybody have any idea what has a) happened, and b) how to fix this?
Thank you!

It's almost as if, when I was adding my wife as a user account on my computer a while ago and giving her permission to access my desktop (and all enclosed items) it created some kind of weird permissions issue.
Yes. I think what happened is probably due to the fact that the Desktop folder normally carries an "everyone deny delete" ACL, meant to protect it from accidental deletion. ACLs are special types of permissions that do not show up in GetInfo, but can be revealed using Terminal.
In my system:
Computer:~ t1$ ls -lde ~/Desktop
drwx------+ 9 t1 staff 306 Nov 4 11:09 /Users/t1/Desktop
0: group:everyone deny delete
Such ACLs can get propagated if you click "Apply to Enclosed Items" on a folder that carries them. Affected subfolders and files that acquire that ACL would then require password authentication to move or delete them.
If you used "Apply to enclosed items" only on the Desktop folder (and not the entire Home folder), then I think the following Terminal command (copy and paste it) should remove such extraneous ACLs:
chmod -RN ~/Desktop/*

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...software from xnation.com that is designed to reset those ACLs?
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Last edited by miek (2013-01-01 01:02:29)

OK... out of ideas
My setup has always included that file followed by `locale-gen` as well as setting up /etc/locale.conf as you have.
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LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_COLLATE=C
% sed '/#/d' /etc/locale.gen
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
Last edited by graysky (2012-12-31 18:20:29)

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Thank you very much for any assistance!

Jesse M. wrote:
Here's what came back:
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That ND Sounds folder is strange. I'm thinking about just deleting it or creating a new folder.
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To do that run
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You can do it for other folders like your Documents and you Desktop folders.
I checked some of the files in the folders (for example, the iTunes music folder in the iTunes folder) and it looks like I'm the owner!
yes, the command I gave you took care of that.
Anything I can do about the applications folder?
what's wrong with it?

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Assuming these files are all inside a single folder or may be placed inside a single folder:
Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder and enter the following:
sudo choen -R username:staff /Path/To/FileFolder/*
Press RETURN. You will be prompted to enter your admin password which will not be echoed.
Substitute the real path to the folder containing the files for "/Path/To/FileFolder/" or you can
drag the folder into the Terminal after the space that comes after "staff" then add the ending "/*"
before pressing RETURN.

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