Home folder stuck in screensaver list in system preferences.

Help! I inadvertently put my home folder in the screensaver list in system preferences. When I access the screensaver list in system preferences, it causes an immediate spinning ball that I have to force quit. I cannot use a screensaver and I cannot create a guest user. How do I get my home folder out of the screensaver list in system preferences? Thanks.

I have a document stuck in my finder sidebar, and it will not delete using the command/drag approach. I cannot even highlight it without it opening. Nothing is working. Why is such a simple thing taking so much time? Apple is supposed to be intuitive and easy, that is why I paid 3x as much for this MacBook as I could have for a pc. Please help!

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I'm administrator of Macbook Pro. Can't get a home folder? Previous owner is off User list but still had a home folder on side bar. How do I get rid of hers and get a home folder of my own? Thanks for any help.

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If I have understood you properly, to do that, you have to create a new administrator user with your name and for your uses. Follow these steps:
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/users_and_groups
and the other respective topics in the wiki.
Also as an advice i know that arch linux is a great distribution, but you have to do more work to mantain a stable server. I would recommend debian or another more conservative distro, but of course it is your choice.
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All the reasons I can guess at for it not being available you seem to have verified.
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Ran Setup Assistant on a new MacBook Air and transferred everything (settings and all) over from my old computer (disabled) using its Time Capsule backup during Setup Assistant's original (and only) run.
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I don't see anything different about yours from mine. I have no problem renaming another account home folder.
All the reasons I can guess at for it not being available you seem to have verified.
Copy and paste in this command in Terminal. Make sure there is a space after what you paste, then drag in the old home folder. It will list the ACLs and any Finder flags on the folder.
ls -dleO
You should only see this after the line listing the folder info:
0: group:everyone deny delete
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i am on lion on a mac pro and for some reason i am getting a bit clutched here redoing my backup routine after having MOVED MY HOME FOLDER to a NEW DISK (it is in bay 3).
"SELECT DISK" is to select the destination (i.e. the Backup HD that the data goes to) - and then -
do i just make sure that the NEW DISK with the newly located HOME FOLDER is simply not listed in OPTIONS > "Exclude these items from backups"??
also, if i /also/ want to BACKUP the disk that i am booting into (it is in Bay 1) do i just make sure that this disk is not listed either??
thanks for any help as my brain is not working very well with this.
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The MacBook malfunction in two different ways:
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3. In /Users the permissions to the folder are being changed (I haven't noted what exactly are the permissions), and I get the error "The folder "wk" can't be opened because you don't have permission to see it's contents"
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6. Zeroed the HDD and installed from a scratch - didn't help with problem A
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Hardware Overview:
Model Name:     MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:     MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name:     Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:     2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors:     1
Total Number Of Cores:     2
L2 Cache:     3 MB
Memory:     4 GB
Bus Speed:     1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:    MBP55.00AC.B03
SMC Version (system):     1.47f2
*** 10.6.7 with FileVault ON, no Apple Protection Plan ***

another kernel panic:
Description:     Panic (system crashes) log
Size:     7 KB
Last Modified:     11-06-23 2:58 PM
Location: [...]
Recent Contents:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 269443 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          1
Anonymous UUID:                    [...]
Thu Jun 23 14:57:30 2011 panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80002cffca): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80003094f9, type 14=page fault,
registers: [...]
Error code: 0x0000000000000002
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: syslogd
WK-MBP:~ wk$ egrep "error|jnl" /private/var/log/kernel.log
Jun 21 07:10:59 WK-MBP kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jun 21 07:13:33 WK-MBP kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jun 21 07:13:33 WK-MBP kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jun 21 07:21:42 WK-MBP kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jun 21 07:22:13 WK-MBP kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jun 21 07:22:43 WK-MBP kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jun 22 08:59:44 WK-MBP kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
Jun 23 07:39:53 WK-MBP kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: replay_journal: from: 59983872 to: 61315072 (joffset 0x1d1a000)
Jun 23 07:39:53 WK-MBP kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: journal replay done.
Jun 23 14:57:26 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: replay_journal: from: 33260544 to: 37344256 (joffset 0xe8e000)
Jun 23 14:57:26 localhost kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: journal replay done.
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Jun 23 14:57:48 WK-MBP kernel[0]: jnl: disk1s2: journal replay done.
Jun 23 15:16:49 WK-MBP kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
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Jun 23 15:16:49 WK-MBP kernel[0]: jnl: unknown-dev: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 110592 bytes to the journal!
at 07:40 I lost access to my home folder (permissions), at 14:58 the system crashed (kernel panic), at 15:16 lost access to home folder again:
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total 0
drwxrwxrwt 4 root wheel 136 16 Jun 07:58 Shared
drwx--x--x 3 root admin 102 23 Jun 14:57 wk

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