Cannot Change Permissions

Here's the scenario:
Server: 10.5.8
Desktops: 10.5.8
User Homedirs: AFP
The user's can connect and work on their documents within their network homedirs without a problem. Sometimes an excel spreadsheet will come up with an error that the file is read-only. To resolve this, they just rename the file. But what I have noticed is that all the users cannot change the permissions on their files. If you do a command+I on the file you see the permissions, but there is no lock icon to unlock the permissions portion. If you change the permissions, whether user, group, or everyone, you receive an error that says: "A system error has occurred: error code -50" However, if I go to the command line and type in for example: sudo chmod -vf 0775 filename. The permissions change. What's going on?
Is this a POSIX issue... where the drive is running on POSIX compliance and not ACLs? I noticed in Server Admin that the File Sharing setup for the drive did not have an ACL list. Everything was being done by POSIX permissions.
Thanks.

I have a problem with my data folder for Eudora. There is a category that I do not know or recognise.
The usual Command-I opens folder info; the at the bottom permissions reads as follows:
Name Privilege
1 michaelg (me) Read & Write
2 (unknown) Custom
3 everyone No Access
Settings for 1 & 3 are fine; however, I am unable to delete the 2nd entry which is an alien implant. Could some kind individual help me to do this in Terminal, if possible?
Kind regards - michaelwilliamg

Similar Messages

Exchange 2010 Public Folders Cannot Change Permissions Errors from Management Console and Powershell

This problem does not affect new public folders, only old ones that have probably been on Exchange 2000/2003 servers in the past. Migrations I believe did go smoothly but now have errors.
Error Reported is:
Microsoft Exchange Error
The following error(s) occurred while saving changes:
Add-PublicFolderClientPermission
Failed
Error:
Failed to modify the MAPI.NET table property of the object "000000001A447390AA6611CD9BC800AA002FC45A030064004E9CC2F8DD46B5E1E4578DE6D8030000000278E90000" on server "FQDN.Server.Name". See inner exception for more information.
MapiExceptionNonCanonicalACL: Unable to modify table. (hr=0x80004005, ec=2409)
Diagnostic context:
    Lid: 40487   EMSMDBMT.EcDoRpcExt2 called [length=218]
    Lid: 56871   EMSMDBMT.EcDoRpcExt2 returned [ec=0x0][length=356][latency=0]
    Lid: 23226   --- ROP Parse Start ---
    Lid: 27962   ROP: ropModifyACL [64]
    Lid: 17082   ROP Error: 0x969
    Lid: 27745
    Lid: 21921   StoreEc: 0x969
    Lid: 27962   ROP: ropExtendedError [250]
    Lid: 1494    ---- Remote Context Beg ----
    Lid: 26426   ROP: ropModifyACL [64]
    Lid: 22086
    Lid: 27128
    Lid: 27232   StoreEc: 0x8004010F
    Lid: 27128
    Lid: 27232   StoreEc: 0x8004010F
    Lid: 22086
    Lid: 21970   StoreEc: 0x8004010F PropTag: 0x3D210102
    Lid: 19149   Error: 0x0
    Lid: 24509   Error: 0x0
    Lid: 31229   Error: 0x0
    Lid: 21970   StoreEc: 0x8004010F PropTag: 0x668F0040
    Lid: 6671    StoreEc: 0x8004010F
    Lid: 24976
    Lid: 24952
    Lid: 25472
    Lid: 7972    StoreEc: 0x969
    Lid: 26532
    Lid: 4920    StoreEc: 0x969
    Lid: 5119    StoreEc: 0x969
    Lid: 5247    StoreEc: 0x969
    Lid: 17916   StoreEc: 0x969
    Lid: 4814    StoreEc: 0x969
    Lid: 1750    ---- Remote Context End ----
    Lid: 26849
    Lid: 21817   ROP Failure: 0x969
    Lid: 29150
    Lid: 20446   StoreEc: 0x969
OK
From ExFolders we get error "Exception: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object"
Any thought on how to fix permissions, people who already had permission in the past can see and access them OK and all objects, but we cannot change/update or remove permissons
We alos receive similar error from the powershell.

Hi,
Could
you please add a new public folder hierarchies with ADSIEdit as following setups.
For how to use ADSIEdit ,you can access:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773354(WS.10).aspx
1.Run ADSIEdit, right click Exchange Administrative Group under “Configuration \ services \ Microsoft
Exchange \ Organization name \ Administrative groups”.
2.Select New Object.
3.Select msExchPublicFolderTreeContainer for the class and click Next.
4.Enter the following for the value:
Folder Hierarchies, click Next.
5.Click Finish.
6.Create
Public Folder Tree Object.
7.Right click CN=Folder Hierarchies -> New Object.
8.Selected msExchPFTree for the class.
9.For the value we entered, "Public Folders" and clicked next.
10.Clicked on the "More Attributes" button, selected msExchPFTreeType .
11.Set the value
to 1.
Note: This is very important that this value is set
to a value of 1 as This tells Exchange that this is a MAPI Tree.
12.Click Ok and then finish.
13.We then went
to the properties of the newly created "Public Folders" Tree object in
ADSIEdit.
14.Copy the distinguished name value
to the clipboard and then click cancel.
15.Navigate
to the Storage group that contains the Public
Folder Store for this server and get properties of the server.
16.Locate the msExchOwningPFTree attribute and paste in the value that was copied
from the Public folders Distinguish name attribute.
17.Restart the Information Store Service.
18.Mounted and dismount the PF store.
19.Open Outlook with administrator,give full permission to default owner.
Hope it can help you!

AMDS will not install as part of 10.7 upgrade. have reinstalled many times..even manually. cannot change permissions in windows\system32\driverstore\filerepository\usb.inf_amd64_neutral_153b489118ee3 7b8

I have reinstalled Itunes 10.7 many times...each time it comes back and says that it cannot recognize my iphone because AMDS is not installed...yet when I try to install it fails...and asks me to reinstall Itunes again. It seems as though it may be realated to the usb.inf file in usb.inf_amd64_neutral_153b489118ee37b8.
I have seen where others fix the issue by changing permissions on the folder and replacing the file...the file says it is 6kb...but when I open the file...there is nothing there. I cannot even change the permission on the folder...even as an administrator. Please help!!!

I have had this problem with Windows 7 and iTunes updates for some time. Each time it takes hours to solve but with the over the air upgrade to IOS6 on my iPhone and iPad, I was determined to solve and remember what I did, So here it is:
http://www.care4pcs.co.uk/2012/09/pear-shaped-apple-ios-6-for-iphone-ipad.html
I hope this helps you and any other users.

Cannot change permissions to external hard drives

My usb partitions are all set to "custom" permissions and they cannot be changed no matter what I have tried. I tried creating new Administrator accounts but I cannot assign any new accounts or settings to the partitions. They merely appear on the desktop with a lock icon on them.
What caused this issue is I wanted to remove the annoying "unknown user" under permissions for an external partition. It would not allow me to do that so I tried to apply disk permissions to "all enclosed items". This did not help either so I tried repairing disk permissions and it appeared to start to fix a trillion disk permission errors that would take 2 hours estimated to do so. It suggested canceling and reinstalling the OS after backing up your files.
So I took that suggestion, cancelled the repairing process, but was not able to back up my files because of this change to the partitions that all now appear with a lock.
I have a feeling it will require some Terminal commands to reapply new permissions to the partitions, which I would need help doing.
Thanks for any assistance.

you should never use "apply to enclosed items" on a system drive or on system created folders. that includes the Applications folder, your home directory, your desktop folder etc. Use it only on folders you create yourself. to unlock the external drives you need to run the following terminal commands (copy and paste please)
sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/"drive name"
sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/"drive name"
Put the name of the affected drive in the above. KEEP the quotes. You'll be prompted to enter your admin password (which you won't see). that's normal.

Team Foundation Administrators Cannot Change Permissions

Using TFS 2012 Update 2
I am in the Team Foundation Administrators group. I am trying clean this group up and remove some users. The Console lets me do that but when I click OK I get an error popup stating my windows account " Needs the following permissions: Edit collection
level information"
First off I thought TFAdmin could do anything, anywhere. Apparently not, so I have looked at the Project Collections security setup and TFAdmin is a member of Project Collection Admins and that group has the permission. I thought permissions got inherited?
And to follow with a general question, if the TFAdmins group can do anything, why does it need to be in any other group?
Thanks.....

Hi Remarkm,
Thanks for your post.
Yes, there’s the Edit collection-level information permission in
Project Collection Administrators group, but this administrator group cannot be modified and this
Edit collection-level information permission set to allow in this group by default.
Except the Edit collection-level information permission in collection level groups, this permission also can be configured in TFS Server level groups, in your TFS Admin Console>>Application Tier>>Administer Security, select the
Team Foundation Administrators group, ensure the Edit collection-level information permission not be denied in this group.
If this Edit collection-level information permission set to Allow in your
Team Foundation Administrators group, but you still receive that “Needs Edit collection level information” error, please execute the command
tfssecurity /imx “username” /collection:url to check your account belong to which groups, then check
Edit collection-level information permission in that groups, ensure this permission not be denied in that groups.
Why the Team Foundation Administrators group be added in
Project Collection Administrators group by default? Because not all TFS permissions be defined in TFS Server group, you will find there’s Administer Warehouse, User full Web Access features and other collection level permissions be defined in TFS Server
group’s Security. But other team project related permissions all defined in collection level groups, and you will find that permissions(workspace, team project, build etc) in your collection admin page. So the
Team Foundation Administrators group be added in Project Collection Administrators group by default, and the permissions settings in this in
Project Collection Administrators group cannot be modified, then all the users in
Team Foundation Administrators group will have the permissions which configured in both
Team Foundation Administrators group and
Project Collection Administrators group.
We are trying to better understand customer views on social support experience, so your participation in this interview project would be greatly appreciated if you have time. Thanks for helping make community forums a great place.
Click
HERE to participate the survey.

Cannot change permissions on an external drive

I have an external drive connected to a MBPro. I use itfr Time Machne backups. I tried to ad my user name though the Get nfo so that I can read & write to the drive. However whn I unlock, and try to add my name, it is not added. What should I do.

You must use the TM application in the Applications folder to remove items from a backup. Never do it manually or you will severely mess up your backup.
When the disk is full then you should either erase the drive and start a new backup sequence or replace the drive with a larger backup drive.
A TM backup drive needs to be at least twice the capacity of the drive it backs up. However, due to the way TM works a backup drive will eventually fill up.

Photoshop CS6 mac OS X 10.9.5 - cannot update 13.0.6 - error "Update failed - unable to write at location." Tried manual update also failed. Tried to change permissions also failed.

Photoshop CS6 mac OS X 10.9.5 - cannot update 13.0.6 - error "Update failed - unable to write at location." Tried manual update also failed. Tried to change permissions also failed.
Follow write permission on thread below - same error message
Re: CS6 updates and Mac write permissions
Need Adobe help to solve this. My own searches in Forums and Google all have failed.

It is not an Adobe problem. You have a OS permissions problem. You can try to correct this by using Disk Utility to Repair Permissions. It is in the First Aid area of Disk Utility.

Big Permissions Problem: "You Cannot Change The Contents Of This Folder"

I installed Tiger some time ago (and need to upgrade now from 10.4.6 to 10.4.9).
I haven't used it much since some of my software will only run under Panther.
In any case, I'm using it now and have been having big permissions/user accounts problems.
I have two users on the computer "robert" and "ra", both with admin privileges (I set up two because I was trying to get around these problems -- I'd be very happy with just one).
I have 10.4.6 installed on an external HD and boot from that into Tiger (I have Tiger on another external HD as a backup, and my main HD in the iMac has 10.3.9 -- that's what I boot from when I need to run older programs).
In any case, both "robert" and "ra" have ADMIN privileges. But I get weird ownership problems. For instance, if I am logged in as "ra" and try to play a Realplayer file streaming from the web (in Firefox 1.x), I get the error
/Users/robert/Desktop/307e6wz7 could not be saved, because you cannot change the contents of that folder.
I check the ownership of the "Desktop" folder -- read/write for "ra".
If I right-click I can save the Realplayer file to the desktop.
Same with other links.
I've also noticed other ownership problems (blocked folders at finder level) but can't duplicate tonight. Is this an obscure error, or is there something amiss in ownership recognition? Is there some way I can sort all out? Login in as "root" and set all right?
Thanks
G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Yes they do. When you installed them you dragged these particular apps to the Applications folder. Doing so automatically attributes the program with the ownership attributes of the account owner who installed them - 'robert.'
Proper application installers install apps under the system/admin ownership. You can try to fix these apps by changing their permissions:
Select the app and CTRL-click to open the contextual menu. Choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Select the Contents folder and press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. In the Ownership and Permissions section click on the tiny arrow icon to expose the panel. Click on the little lock icon to authenticate. Change permissions as follows:
Owner = system with Read/Write privileges
Group = admin with Read/Write privileges
Other with Read-Only privileges
Click on the Apply To Enclosed Items button. Close the lock by clicking again on the lock icon.

My MacBook w/ OSX 10.6.8 cannot access my external Time Machine Backup USB Drive. It says it is a Read Only drive. When I went to change permissions I found all pernissions were listed as "Custom" and I could not reset them to "Read Write". Any help!

My MacBook w/ OSX 10.6.8 cannot access my external Time Machine Backup USB Drive. It says it is a Read Only drive. When I went to change permissions I found all pernissions were listed as "Custom" and I could not reset them to "Read Write". Any help would be appreciated.

This can be done easily with ethernet.
Please follow the instructions strictly.
To make it easier I want you to do this overnight so you can turn off all your current connection to the internet.
Just go to the airport fan in to the top right and turn airport off.
Get ethernet cable and connect the laptop to the TC lan port.. ie <-> ones.
Press and hold the reset on the TC for about 10sec. until the front led flashes rapidly.
Open the airport utility.. go to manual setup and change the wireless to off. (so other people around you cannot join your network of one).
Ignore all the errors.. they won't stop the backup working.
Go to the TM and reselect the backup target disk as the TC.
It should start after 2min and run through to completion.
That is it.. for a backup of many GB it might take a few hours.. so make sure the laptop has power plugged in and the sleep is off.. (on early ones I think this is needed but I am a late arrival to the scene).. sleep doesn't affect later OS.

External Hard Drives Changing Permissions to Read Only

Three of my USB external hard drives have suddenly changed to read only. One of the times I was trying to transfer/back-up the files from one drive that had changed to read only to another external. Suddenly the second drive changed permissions. Then after plugging a third external, that drive changed permissions. They all were working perfectly fine with my computer and I have only been using them on MACS. Any explanations? Could there be something wrong with my USB ports? Is it possible to have a virus of some sort?
Thank you!

In disk utility I had a look. I cannot verify or set permission (greyed out). The data coming back from info. How can I change this??
Name : FUJITSU MHZ2320BH G1 Media
Type : Disk
Partition Map Scheme : Master Boot Record
Disk Identifier : disk2
Media Name : FUJITSU MHZ2320BH G1 Media
Media Type : Generic
Connection Bus : USB
USB Serial Number : 560A48A291F9
Device Tree : /PCI0/EHC1@1D,7/@3:0
Writable : Yes
Ejectable : Yes
Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No
Location : External
Total Capacity : 298,1 GB (320.072.933.376 Bytes)
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 0
Name : NieuwVolume
Type : Volume
Disk Identifier : disk2s1
Mount Point : /Volumes/NieuwVolume
File System : Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Connection Bus : USB
Device Tree : /PCI0/EHC1@1D,7/@3:1
Writable : No
Universal Unique Identifier : C7B58C48-D6BC-4078-9DAE-CB125901A4D6
Capacity : 298,1 GB (320.070.288.384 Bytes)
Free Space : 127,1 GB (136.438.530.048 Bytes)
Used : 171,0 GB (183.631.757.312 Bytes)
Number of Files : 85.578
Number of Folders : 0
Owners Enabled : No
Can Turn Owners Off : No
Can Be Formatted : No
Bootable : No
Supports Journaling : No
Journaled : No
Disk Number : 2
Partition Number : 1

I cannot change my desktop Picture On Mac Os 10.10.1

I having a problem once i update to mac os 10.10, Update to 10.10.1 also the same issues. My desktop picture still cannot change.It appear Could not load Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane..
Kindly advise for this case.
Thanks & Regard,

I am experiencing the very same problem. I recently installed Yosemite, last OS was Maverick on my iMac 10,1. I've tried moving the desktop.plist from library - preferences to my desktop, restarting etc. to no avail. I've tried changing permissions on the current and stuck desktop image. No luck there. Any similar experiences? Ideas? Solutions?
Thanks all

How can I change permissions on my iPhone photos?

Whenever I download, or email, photos from my iPhone to my PC, the photos come in rotated. Whenever I try to edit photos taken with my iPhone, even something as simple as rotate or resize, I get errors telling me "You cannot rotate this image. The file may be in use or open in another program [it isn't] or the file or folder may be read-only." The folder is NOT Read Only but the all Microsoft permissions are greyed out and cannot be changed.
No matter what avenue I follow to change permissions, the files remained locked up tighter than Fort Knox and I can't do anything except get seriously frustrated.
What in blazes can I do to keep ownership of my own photos? They are completely useless in this form.
I'm running an iPhone 4S with OS 5.1, my laptop is running Win 7 Home Edition Service Pack 1.

Are you talking about your apple id or actually email address?
apple id - settings - app/itunes store - view id - log out and log in with new id.
email addres - settings - mail/contact/calendar - add account.

File Vault changes permissions?

I've written a C++ application that will be used by both Windows and OSX clients. The app is simple and console based and is distributed as a simple binary file, compiled separately for Windows and as a Universal OSX application. I edit with AquaEmacs and compile from within using a simple makefile. I don't think any of this is relevant, but it might so I share it.
I've sent the file to one of my OSX testers who happens to be using an Intel Mac (MacBook) running OSX 10.4.10. The file is named "Sartain" and I send it as a file attachment to an email, not it .dmg format. Just for insurance, I use chmod to set file permissions to universal r,w,x (sudo chmod 777 Sartain). With this background, here is the problem I'm trying to sort out.
My tester seems to receive this file as "Sartain." (note the period). Moreover, when he tries to execute the file (./Sartain) from his home directory, he gets "permission denied". I had him check permissions and the received file has stripped off all the write and execute permissions, leaving him only with universal "read" permission. The only way he can run the program is to use chmod to reset permissions.
He is not a Mac sophisticate and so I don't really know what to have him check. He reports that he DOES NOT use virus protection on the machine but he has FILE VAULT turned on. This is the only thing I can think of that would produce this problem. I've scanned the net widely but cannot find conclusive evidence that FILE VAULT changes permissions on received files, but I'm stumped where else to look. He uses a Novell email client and I suppose that his mail server could be stripping off the permissions, but I'd like to rule out FILE VAULT before having to phone his sysadmins to find out what the default setting is on their mail server.
Any thoughts here would be welcome. Thanks for your help.

You should try posting this to the Developers forum at http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=164

Cannot Change Desktop Picture Anymore

Hi -
Problem is described in the Header. And goes for ALL accounts incl. ROOT Account.
Scenario: I open Sys Pref. Go to Desktop/ScreenSaver - it opens fine and I can click the images. They will even show in the little preview window in the top. The only thing NOT changing is the Actual Desktop. It remains Solid Blue.
Tried deleting Finder, desktop, .globalpref( in both pref folders) - Preferences
Any Ideas ?

SASLR wrote:
I just started to have the same problem... Can no longer change desktop images... I've tried to do it from within iPhoto, right clicking on desktop, and going in through system preferences... My "padlock" is "open", I am the system administrator, but still cannot change the image...
HELP!
Have you done your homework?
Run DU, check/repair HD and permissions.
If that does not work, move following .plists to desktop; let system create new plists
try this one first:
com.apple.desktop.plist
reboot and see if this fixes it.
if not then move this one to desktop and repeat
com.apple.desktopscreensaver.rsspictures.plist
report back here with results.

Cannot change Color mode

Hello,
I was provided a file from a customer that is RGB. I need to change it to cmyk for printing. HOwever I cannot change the color mode. All my options in the Mode section under Image are greyed out. I have never seen this happen before.. Here is a screen shot of the Mode.
The image has been flattened. I am using PS cs6 on a mac. I have never seen this happen before. Does any one have any ideas?

Strange. Could the file permissions be set to lock you out?
In the Finder, do a Get Info in the file and look at the permissions. If at the bottom, your name says "read only," then you need to change the permissions to allow you to read AND write.
To change permissions, use BatChmod, but be careful to change the permissions on that file ONLY.
It's FREE at:
http://www.lagentesoft.com/batchmod/index.html
... And if that doesn't solve the problem, can you share the file?

Cannot Change Permissions

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for