How to access user data in Lion partition from Snow Leopard?
How do I access data residing on my Lion partition from the Snow Leopard partition, ie when I boot from the 10.6 partition?
I have an account on the Lion partition and one on the Snow Leopard partition, with the same short name.
But if I try to access the data residing on the Lion partition (under my user directory) from Snow Leopard , it says I do not have sufficient privileges.
How do I best solve this issue?
My user data basically all resides in the Lion partition, the only reason for keeping the Snow Leopard partition is a programme that has not yet been updated to Lion compatibility, and will not be for another two months. I have to use it daily (until the update).
TIA
Marc
That was too easy :-)
Thank you.
As an added quirk I had to open the package with the data files (by right-click, show package contents) and manually change the permissions on the four contained files. I had expected that to happen automatically when changing the packages' permissions.
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