I have denied all access to the hard drive on my i mac what can i do to be able to use it again
I have denied all acess to the hard drive on my Imac I purchased a refurbished imac about 6 months ago and im still not really familiar with every thing as i used to use a windows computer so ill try my best to describe what i have done. On the desk top it had a hard drive icon I open it. There was a section about allowing access. There were three different ones (now Im not exactly sure but i believe it looked something like this
System Read and Write
Read only
Write to drop box
User
Read and Write
Read only
Write to drop box
Shared Read only
deny access
I then changed the bottom one to deny access, the middle one to write to drop box and then the top one to write to drop box ( I quickly realized how stupid this was) It then wouldn't let me do or open anything. I ended up turning it off by pressing the button on the back of the I MAC. When I turned it back on it asked for my password which i entered, then it went to the screen with the apple in the center and the loading icon underneath and has not changed.
What can i do so i can use it again?
I think it was OS 9.5.? I dont really know and cant even access this info anymore
in the folders on the left your will have your mail account and local folders.
Anything in local folders is stored only on your local hard disk.
* Right click the mail account. Select settings
* Select copies and folders for your university account
* Click archive options and select the type of structure you want the archive in. (keep existing folder structure would be important to you think)
* in the copies and folders, change the archive folder to other and select the archive folder for local folders (the local folders account entry in the list will expand if you hover the mouse over it)
Now some other points. ''
* Holding shift while clicking select everything in the list between clicks. Holding Ctrl while clicking will hold the selections and allow other entries to be toggles on and off by clicking them.
* Ctrl+A will select the entire list
Finally''
Pressing the A key when mail is selected archives it.
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