Permission change issues with folders

Trying to change access to some folders in my home folder. I am in my admin account. In the get info window, I see Me with RW, Staff with RO and Everyone with RO. I don't know where the staff comes from, but I can't delete it or change it to no access. the same applies to everyone, I can't change it to no access.
I use my password to unlock, I can see the other options but nothing happens. Thanks

This is on an iMac 24 with 10.5.1

Similar Messages

  • Permission/Privilege Issues With Mac OS Lion

    I created a new user account after I installed Lion, transferred my files over, and now I'm having issues with my account. I don't know if permissions and privilages are responsible for the issues, but seemingly so. I also have to mention that when I was changing over user accounts, I ended up wanting to change the short names on both my old and new accounts, so I used the root user to do so. Here are some problems I've been experiencing:
    - When I open system preferences, it always opens up to the General pane. No matter what.
    - After restarting, certain windows that I had open at a certain time keep opening up, no matter if I closed them out and had completely new windows open.
    - Preferences in certain applications will not save. Audacity opens up each time I start my computer, there is a tick box for show this screen when starting Audacity, I untick it, but it still opens up each time. Photoshop gives me a message that my preferences can't be saved because I don't have the right privilages. Textedit keeps opening up to a certain file I had open a couple of days ago, and when I try to save a new document, it gives me an error. Safari only remembers history from a couple of days ago. And when I try to reset Safari, and reopen it, the same old history is displayed.
    - When I try to move files to my desktop or to the Trash, I have to authenticate it.
    I tried Repairing the disk, repairing permissions, inserting my Mac os leopard disk and doing the same, and using the Reset Password utility on the Mac os installation disk to repair permissions to my home folder, but nothing is working.

    Hi everyone, I have found a solution. This worked for me:
    1) Create a new user account. Make sure it has a desireable name, otherwise you're going to want to change it later, and that will cause permission issues. (check if preferences are saving in this temporary new account, if not, I can't help you.)
    2) Transfer all the files you want to keep by putting them in the SHARED folder.
    3) Change permissions to the folders and files in your shared folder by right clicking and clicking on GET INFO. Then go to the very bottom of the popup menu and unlock the picture of the lock. Next change permissions so that your new account will have permission to view the files. You might have to add your new account to the list by pressing the plus button, or simply allow staff the read and right, or just let everyone read and right. Next click on the gear menu (the one with the little gear on it.) and click on APPLY TO ENCLOSED ITEMS.
    4) Go to your new user account and take the things in the shared folder and put them where you had them in your older account.
    Now you have a new user with the files you want, the permissions right, and preferences will save!
    I really really really hope this works for you. I know how extremely frustrating it was. It worked for me, and I am so relieved now.

  • SAP BW structure/table name change issue with BODS Jobs promotion

    Dear All, One of my client has issue with promotion of BODS jobs from one environment to another. They move SAP BW projects/tables along with BODS jobs (separately) from DEV to QA to Prod.
    In SAP-BW the structures and tables get a different postfix when they are transported to the next environment.  The promotion in SAP-BW (transport) is an automated process and it is the BW deployment mechanism that causes the postfixes to change.  As a result with the transport from Dev to QA in SAP-BW we end up with table name changes (be they only suffixes), but this does mean that when we deploy our Data Services jobs we immediately have to change them for the target environments.
    Please let me know if someone has deployed some solution for this.
    Thanks

    This is an issue with SAP BW promotion process. SAP BASIS team should not turn on setting to suffix systemid with the table names during promotion.
    Thanks,

  • Cancel Product change issues with IS-U

    Hi All,
    We are implementing CRM 2007 with SAP IS-U. We have the following issues On Cancel Product change:
    1) The Product allocation time slice does not reset to 31.12.9999
    2) The time slice on installation does not reset to that of the original value
    3) Any configurable attributes that were created as a result of the product change process are not reverted back / the time is not end sliced.
    Let me know if any one has encountered any such problems.
    Thank you,
    Binno Don Thomas

    Hi, a Little late but..
    This is a problema from your 3 scsm services, maybe in your principal or secundary server.  You must to restart services in an special order and delete application cache.
    Please review
    http://www.systemcentercentral.com/scsm-2012-tip-all-workflows-stuck-in-new-status-and-never-completing-issue-and-workaround/
    it Works!
    If you have principal and secondary do it in both servers.
    I think this problem is for bad performance in databases and application, so review your hardware design, and logical, so review workflow performance too.
    For items when state new, you must change it to inprogress with smlets

  • POP email issues with folders - 1.3.5 applied

    My email is configured for POP since IMAP on the Pre doesn't properly delete messages from my server's inbox due to a problem with Palms code (according to my ISP).
    My issue is that all messages stored in any folder on my server (other than messages in the sent, drafts or outbox folders) show up in my Pre's INBOX.  In other words, if I move a message from my inbox to a folder labled "work" using my ISP's HTML client, the message will remain in my Pre's inbox.  Similarly, if I move a message from the trash folder to a folder labled "blogs", it will appear in the Pre's Inbox.
    Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

    Thanks Tags but that precentral artical is a load of crap!  I've been a System engineer since 1993. I've setup countless email solutions for fortune 500 companies over the years, both pop & imap, and I've never heard of such a lousy excuse from a vendor.
    POP was working as it should prior to the 1.3 update - end of story!  imap-lite? Give me a break!  Put it back the way it was so everyone is happy again.
    I would prefer to use IMAP but as I had already explained, IMAP hasn't worked properly on my Pre (with Netaddress.com) since I got it. Deleted emails remain in the server's inbox until I go onto the server and manually delete them or use POP!
    It seems that the 1.3.5 did nothing more than create new issues by the way...  now none of my Google calander events, prior to August 2009 appear on my Pre anymore.  Furthermore, every event after March 15th is off by an hour even though it'scorrect on Google's website.  Also some off my Apps no longer work (ex. m:Mafia).  WTF?!

  • Import Issues with folders

    Runnnig Win7 Business with a IBM X300 and 2G, P8400.
    I have tried to import 18000 pictures, but only got 400, so I started to do a folder by folder import and have notice that folders with pictures imported  will only import 25 pictures frequently and importing seems to stop afterwards.
    (i.e. you can't do another import without restarting the program)
    Tried this on my home machine Win 7 Home which has 4G with quad core Q8200 and the behavior is virtually identical.

    Well, good to know on that point!
    Perhaps you could mark this as answered?
    Tx.

  • 10.5.8 connecting to 2008 R2 SBS issues with folders

    Hey,
    I hope someone might be able to help.
    We have a company currently using Windows Small Business Server 2008 R2 that have about 20 mac's connecting to a shared drive using a single user login.
    The problem we have is users copy files from there desktop but the permissions don't replicate on the files / folders on the server. Also when connected to a 2nd share point on the same server with the same user name and password they cannot copy / move their original folder. If you try to move these folders using Administrator on the server it states you don't have permissions and you can't enforce them either! When files do copy it copy's all the files and directory's but leaves folders in the original folder. (Which cannot be deleted, no permissions)
    We have been looking at doing AD Binding to see if permissions could be resolved this way. any help would be great.

    Upgrading to OS X 10.6 is straight forward. You'll need 1GB of memory and some disk space for the upgrade. You need to buy on OS X 10.6 DVD to perform the upgrade, it's not available by download. You can call the online Apple store in Australia at 133-622 and should be able to order it from them (same as in the US). After you install it, run Software Update several times, and you'll end up at OS X 10.6.8. Of course make a backup of the system before the update.
    Beyond the minimum memory to run OS X 10.6, you probably already know that Adobe recommends 4GB to 16GB of memory for the CS6 products for best performance.

  • Anyone else having issues with folders / files not showing or showing stragely?

    Device: MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
    If I open a new window from the desktop (Apple N), the folder either shows it's empty (even though it it's not) or the text has black bars over, or the text is jumbled.
    My downloads folder is actually full of files, but shows empty:
    Funky text (I intentionally blurred parts of the images, but the fonts get jumbled on their own):

    I have a mid 2010 mini (with Mountain Lion) and I just recently noticed I was experiencing this problem.The timezone thing didn't work for me.
    I *may* have fixed it though. I went into the Security / Privacy settings, selected the privacy tab, and *there* turned off location services and turned it back on.
    I think that worked - keep your fingers crossed! (So far, so good.)

  • /dev/null file permission changes frequently

    Hi,
    We are experiencing file permission change issue frequently for the
    following files:
    root@domain5 # ls -l /devices/pseudo/mm@0:null
    crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 13, 2 Apr 22 2009
    /devices/pseudo/mm@0:null
    root@domain5 # ls -l /dev/null
    crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 13, 2 Oct 25 07:01 /dev/null
    By default, above is the file permission settings. If the file permission
    changes, it will look like as below:
    root@domain5 # ls -l /devices/pseudo/mm@0:null
    cr--r--r-- 1 root sys 13, 2 Apr 22 2009
    /devices/pseudo/mm@0:null
    root@domain5 # ls -l /dev/null
    cr--r--r-- 1 root sys 13, 2 Oct 25 07:01 /dev/null
    Due to this file permission change the script which uses this file loose
    the write permission and the script fails. To fix this issue, we will be
    manually changing the permission. Can you please help me to know the cause for
    this file permission change.
    Thanks,
    Ram.

    You need to correlate any changes on the system to when you have the problem, or see the date on /dev/null change. Software packages can change this, applications can change this, sometimes even patch installs.
    Even certain administrative practices.
    Here's one example, where touching a vendor software-created printer config with native Solaris admintool would change /dev/null permissions
    http://www.rootunix.org/SOLARIS/printFAQ.txt
    10) ONLY ROOT CAN SEND PRINT JOBS:
    This problem is caused by network spooling software that for a
    network printer that uses /dev/null for the printer device. The
    software monitors the queue and spools the print requests over the
    network to the printer. If the printer setup is modified in any
    way with Admintool, the printer device (/dev/null) permissions will
    change to 600 owner lp.

  • I just restored my 13" MBP i5 at the apple store to the newest version of Lion after issues with a previous Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard- this time I created a new account and just ported files and folders, and now MS Office doesn't work. Help?

    I just restored my 13" MBP i5 at the apple store to the newest version of Lion after issues with a previous Time Machine backup from Snow Leopard- this time I created a new account and just ported files and folders, and now MS Office doesn't work.
    ^^ that's the main problem. Here's the full history.
    I bought a new 13" i5 MBP, early 2011 edition. I had an old white Macbook 2.14 ghz core2duo on Snow Leopard. I attempted to port over my time machine backup, but encountered problems in that my User was inaccessible from the new computer after the import finished, and I had to go in and change the root password, etc, and for some reason or another, I couldn't install any programs at all from that administrator's account. By "couldn't" I mean I could install them, but upon installation they would never boot. So, I took it to the apple store and did a clean install from the most up to date Lion OSX. Then, I created a brand new admin account, instead of trying to import the old one, and things seemed great. Then, I just imported my old files from the TM backup, but not any system settings, permissions, or user data. Just my Docs, pics, vids, apps, and itunes stuff.
    Here's where things get weird again. I imported this stuff under the name "old", but all of these folders have a red negative sign on them, marking them as restricted. So, from my main admin account, I cannot even peruse these folders. Since I didn't import user data, I can't sign in to the "old" account to change permissions. I already tried to change the permissions from system preferences, but that didn't change anything. And now, for whatever reason, of all the apps that were imported then, MS Office is the only set of apps that does not work. When I click on it, it just says there was a problem and asks if I'd like to send a report to apple. I tried reinstalling it to no avail. I'm an English student, so i really need access to Word. Can anyone help? The Apple store is a major detour for me and would like to fix this issue myself.

    Most likely you have Office 2004 which are PPC-only applications and will not work in Lion. Upgrade to Office 2011. Other alternatives are:
    Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.)
    Open Office (Office 2007-like suite compatible with OS X.)
    NeoOffice (similar to Open Office.)
    LibreOffice (a new direction for the Open Office suite.)

  • I am having issues with my web module on Lightroom 4 (Mac OS 10.9.5). "an unknown error occurred" while trying to upload to my FTP (no changes in my FTP). Bandaid fix was to export to local folder and upload via Filezilla. However, now that is no longer w

    I am having issues with my web module on Lightroom 4 (Mac OS 10.9.5). "an unknown error occurred" while trying to upload to my FTP (no changes in my FTP). Bandaid fix was to export to local folder and upload via Filezilla. However, now that is no longer working and although upload completes, the URL takes you to a "Forbidden - do not have permission to read this file" page. Lightroom is changing the permissions of each file to 000 instead of 644 for index files and 755 for all others. How can I change the permissions settings in Lightroom?

    I am having issues with my web module on Lightroom 4 (Mac OS 10.9.5). "an unknown error occurred" while trying to upload to my FTP (no changes in my FTP). Bandaid fix was to export to local folder and upload via Filezilla. However, now that is no longer working and although upload completes, the URL takes you to a "Forbidden - do not have permission to read this file" page. Lightroom is changing the permissions of each file to 000 instead of 644 for index files and 755 for all others. How can I change the permissions settings in Lightroom?

  • Permission Issue with Adobe Bridge

    Hello Support,
    We are an all mac environment, and we are trying to import and export templates of metadata from Adobe Bridge. The files we are accessing are on a file server on our network. When making changes to metadata using Adobe Bridge we are getting permission denied. The permissions are fine, as we can add, delete, and modify files in the same server directories using finder or other applications. This has happened in the past and the resolution was to create a a whole new profile on the local mac.The new profile then had no issues with importing and exporting metadata. However, this is now the third time we have had to create a new profile on the local mac to resolve this permission issue within Adboe Bridge. We are running Adobe Bridge CS5 version 4.0.0.5.2.9. We are wondering if there is a permanent solution to this, seeing as we do not want to have to re-create a new profile every 3-4 months. Could there be a setting in Adobe that we need to edit or anything else that would avoid us having to re-create the profile? Thanks in advance for all advice to this issue.

    any help at all would be gladly appreciated. Also, is there a phone number or chat support with Adobe support that anyone can provide?

  • Permission issues with files put on desktop by Vista

    Hi Folks,
    I posted this before and got no response so I'm trying again.
    Trying to finally solve an issue that has dogged me ever since upgrading to Lion in the summer. Since installing Lion 10.7 (clean install), I now seem to be having File Sharing issues with a fellow colleague who is on Vista. When trying to open a file placed on my desktop by this user (who has been set up as a "real" network user in Sys Prefs) I get the following message:
    "You do not have permission to open the document "Some_Image.jpg".
    Contact your computer or network administrator for assistance.
    I have to do the following In order to gain access:
    1. Unlock small lock icon in bottom right of Get Info Window
    2. Enter Password in dialog that says "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."
    3. Click the now enabled plus sign below list
    4. Select my self from the list of users
    5. Change privilege to "Read & Write" in Privilege column adjacent to my user name.
    Both Vista Machines do this to me although Windows 7 does not. UPDATE: one user has updated his vista install to WIndows 7 and I have this problem again.
    I had hoped that the 10.7.3 update would have fixed this problem for me as I read that the update addresses some Networking issues, but it hasn't.
    Any thoughts here?
    Thank you,
    J.E. Flynn

    Oddly enough, I can't even seem to provide "Write Only (Drop Box)" access to the Windows clients.
    My limited understanding of Widows networking and sharing is starting to rear it's ugly head.
    If I set up File Sharing and give the windows client access to a shared folder. It can copy files but still I do not have access to those (as described above).
    The only way I can get a Windows machine to access my Mac is for them to type my computers local IP in the Explorer address bar " \\192.168.1.XX " and login as me. Obviously, this is not desirable
    All other attempts to login from a Windows client are now failing.

  • Finder Wants Permission Every time File is moved on Server (issue with multiple users)

    The Situation: I have a team of seven coworkers that uses a file structure on a server to move job folders from the 'active jobs' folder to "coworker x's" folder and then to a "waiting" folder once the job has been completed. Pretty much just moving folders into different folders. Seems pretty simple.
    The Problem: At times, some folders will not move from one folder to another, and a message pops up asking "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this" and then it shows my computer's name and asks for a password. Now if typing in the password meant that the file would be moved, I would be fine with it, but when I type in my password in and accepts it, it does nothing! Like I said, there are seven of us that are using this system, and everyone has the same issue with the same folders, it is not like one person can move it and another cannot. To make it even harder to define where the issue is coming from: if you go back after a few minutes / hours, the folder will randomly be able to move with no issue. If you take the files out of the folder, you can move them, and when you move the now empty folder, it will gladly move into any folder, but when the files remain in the folder it asks for the password. And in some cases, folders that were just made and are empty have the same issue, which leads me to believe that this issue is not a result of the contents of the folder, but something else.
    It is seemingly impossible to nail down the cause of our dilemma so I have come here in hopes of a great break through. The worst part is is that we are not doing anything that difficult, we are simply moving folders around. This is a windows based server, that might be important. Also, some of us are running Mavericks and others are still on Snow Leopard. Thank you for any information you might have! ( I have already tried the boot in recovery, resetpassword trick with no luck >_< )

    If we're going to fix this, we will have to concentrate on one person to start with. Can that be you?
    Some more information is required, only from you, your Mac and your windows user account on the server:
    On the Windows server, are the 3 folders in question within the one shared folder?
    What is the name of the Volume (share) that appears in Finder?
    Are any of the folders being copied or moved to the local drive of the Mac?
    On the windows server, what are the permissions that you have to:
      The top-level shared folder
      The 3 folders underneath the top-level shared folder
    Do a Get Info of the Volume (share) in Finder and do a screen shot of both the area above Preview and the area below Preview (Preview itself is not required. Make sure all right-pointing arrows are expanded to down-pointing arrows so all info in each section can be seen.
    (Did this discussion get re-assigned to the OS X Server Community? I've never been there, and I thought I found it in the OS X Mavericks community.) Are you actually running OS X Server on the Macs?
    Message was edited by: SilverSkyRat: Additional Question

  • Issue with "timing" in Message output of Change PO

    Dear Experts,
    For change PO, We are facing issue with the Timing in message output of PO.
    i.e, For example when we create a PO - the timing in message output is "1"
    after executing ME9F, the message turns GREEN - and still the timing is 1.
    Change PO : NOW WHEN WE CHANGE A PO, a new entry of Message output appears in "YELLOW"
    Here is the issue - Now when we manually change the timing from "3" to "4", initially it appear's "4",
    but if u refer the below screenshot - once we save the application i turns back to 3.
    any idea - why this is happening.
    Thanks in advance.
    Regards,
    Rohit

    Hi,
    1st  make sure  which Dispatch time you want for your PO layout and restrict changing dispatch time manually in PO.
    Now use t.code:NACE, with application EF for your PO message type, Keep Dispatch time 4 in ‘Default values’ TAB  and select check of “CannotBeChanged” in Basis Data TAB and save.
    Maintain message condition record in t.code:MN04 with PO message type and keep Dispatch time 4.
    Now create PO , try to change Dispatch time  and see how system behave!
    Regards,
    Biju K

Maybe you are looking for