Permissions issue locks me out of my desktop folder
Hi All.
I have a worrying dilema that I am hoping someone can advise me on.
The symptoms are:
*1. A blank desktop after start-up (files, folders and volumes are not loading)*
*2. It takes an extremely long time for the "Devices", "Shared", and "Places" lists to populate in the open-dialogue sidebar.*
*3. Saving files from applications takes an unusually long time.*
*4. All other apps and non-Finder related activities appear unaffected.*
*5. If I navigate directly to the "Desktop" folder in my user folder in the Finder, it appears as an alias. I double click on it and a window appears which says it is trying to resolve the alias, and soon after I get this permissions error:*
*"The folder “Desktop” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents."*
So overall this appears to be a permissions issue impacting my desktop directory. A similar thing happened six months ago. On that occasion I tried repairing permissions which didn't help and I ended up creating a new user account and restoring from Time Machine.
I'd prefer not to have to do that again. More so, I'd like to actually fix the root cause this time.
My appreciation in advance for any advise that at least makes my desktop reappear.
Best,
Wade.
Hi Barney.
OK, did so, and here it is:
*Last login: Sat May 22 16:56:58 on console*
*wade-laubes-mac-pro:~ wadelaube$ ls -aleO*
*total 106*
*drwxr-xr-x+ 36 wadelaube staff - 1224 22 May 08:06 .*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*drwxr-xr-x 6 root admin - 204 20 Feb 09:33 ..*
*-rw------- 1 wadelaube staff - 3 3 Jan 2008 .CFUserTextEncoding*
*-rw-r--r--@ 1 wadelaube staff hidden 21508 23 May 08:24 .DS_Store*
*drwxr-xr-x@ 3 wadelaube staff - 102 6 Dec 2008 .DownloadManager*
*drwxr-xr-x 3 wadelaube staff - 102 14 Oct 2009 .MacOSX*
*drwx------ 29 wadelaube staff - 986 22 May 16:12 .Trash*
*drwxr-xr-x 2 wadelaube staff - 68 16 Dec 08:30 .Xcode*
*drwxr-x--x 4 wadelaube staff - 136 2 May 10:05 .adobe*
*-rw------- 1 wadelaube staff - 1070 22 May 10:47 .bash_history*
*drwx------@ 3 wadelaube staff - 102 11 Jan 2008 .cups*
*drwxr-xr-x 9 wadelaube staff - 306 23 May 18:01 .dropbox*
*drwxr-xr-x 6 wadelaube staff - 204 21 May 2008 .dvdcss*
*drwxr-xr-x 3 wadelaube staff - 102 21 Jan 10:37 .gem*
*drwxr-xr-x 3 wadelaube staff - 102 23 Feb 2008 .mplayer*
*-rw-r--r-- 1 wadelaube staff - 201 15 May 2008 .parallels_settings*
*-rw------- 1 wadelaube staff - 1024 3 May 07:32 .rnd*
*drwx------ 3 wadelaube staff - 102 22 May 08:06 .ssh*
*drwxr-xr-x 6 wadelaube staff - 204 12 Feb 19:30 .subversion*
*drwxr-xr-x 2 wadelaube staff - 68 8 Jul 2008 .wapi*
*drwxr-xr-x 3 wadelaube staff - 102 11 Apr 2008 .wirefusion*
*drwxr-xr-x 2 wadelaube staff - 68 2 May 10:11 Applications*
*-rw-r--r-- 1 wadelaube staff - 1195 21 Apr 12:48 BlankPage.php*
*dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 1 23 May 17:55 Desktop*
*drwx------+ 61 wadelaube staff - 2074 15 Feb 07:38 Documents*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*drwx------+ 516 wadelaube staff - 17544 22 May 16:12 Downloads*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*drwxr-xr-x@ 9 wadelaube staff - 306 22 May 16:57 Dropbox*
*drwx------+ 65 wadelaube staff - 2210 1 Mar 19:33 Library*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*drwx------+ 9 wadelaube staff - 306 15 Feb 07:39 Movies*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*drwx------+ 5 wadelaube staff - 170 13 Jan 2008 Music*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*drwx------+ 16 wadelaube staff - 544 13 Feb 21:13 Pictures*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*drwxr-xr-x+ 6 wadelaube staff - 204 11 Jan 2008 Public*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*drwxr-xr-x+ 11 wadelaube staff - 374 23 Feb 22:17 Sites*
*0: group:everyone deny delete*
*-rw-r--r-- 1 wadelaube staff - 1754 27 Jun 2005 vtiinf.html*
*-rw-r--r-- 1 wadelaube staff - 957 14 Nov 2006 edit_archive.php*
*-rw-r--r-- 1 wadelaube staff - 0 2 Mar 21:22 index.html*
*wade-laubes-mac-pro:~ wadelaube$*
Thanks for your help.
Wade.
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sddacraig13:~ Anthony$ ls -la /Volumes
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root admin 204 Oct 31 16:44 .
drwxrwxr-x 31 root wheel 1122 Oct 24 15:28 ..
drwx------ 19 Anthony staff 602 Oct 31 07:06 Data
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Oct 31 06:19 Macintosh -> /
drwxrwxrwx 0 root wheel 0 Oct 31 16:44 MobileBackups
drwxr-xr-x 1 Anthony staff 8192 Oct 24 21:01 Windows
sddacraig13:~ Anthony$
Any issues you guys can think of? I did clean install OS X AFTER I had originally created the USB volume "Data," but my username and everything should still be the same... I think maybe my computer name may have changed (necessary for a school thingy).
Help! I'd like to be able to write to the volume while it as attached to the network...This fixes just the symptom.
The cause is driving me nuts.
Whenever there is a little network problem (out of hands because of ISP)...
I looses my Volumes, which is still somewhat acceptable.
What is not acceptable is, that spotlight and whatever apps mean to write something onto my shares and whenever they are not available new folders are added under /Volumes/ShareName and so fourth.
I am tired of fixing it manually.
Because when I reconnect to my shares they'd be added as /Volume/ShareName-1 then as ShareName has been created by Mac OS X natively for some Reason.
In the beginning I thought my Backupsoftware does that, or Amok Exif Sorter or whatever else Application... but shouldn't be the Standardprocedure for creating and writing data that if the folder is not found to interrupt with an exception/error or whatever.
I find it not a very amusing practise to clean up the Volumes Folder every now and then for it gets spammed with rogue mountpoints that are in reality just directories locally for the real share was missing at the time something tried to write to there...
Whenever I miss out that that happened data gets corrupted and I have to clean up the data massup by finding the differences amongst and getting the newest Version etc...
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Permissions Issue saving to Home Directory on Server 2008 R2
I have a lab of 10.5 iMacs connected to our domain through active directory. When the students log in, their network home directories (hosted on Win Server 2008 R2) mount on the desktop. The students are having permissions issues when saving to these directories. For some odd reason, the students can save files created in Word, but not files created in Excel. We have separate shares on the same server for our teachers - Hand In and Hand Out. The students are unable to copy files from the Hand Out folders to their home directories because they get the same permissions error message.
Last year as a work around to this issue we gave the students full control of their home directories. We do not want to continue doing this because then the students can change the permissions on their home directories. The standard in our district is to give the students "modify" control.
We have 10.4 macs set up in this exact same manner and we do not have any permissions problems. This only seems to affect the 10.5 macs. Thanks!Hi Rolf,
I understand the confusion.
So the answers to your questions first.
It was suggested to me to get CR2008 but I heard 2008 will not be supported much longer, is that correct?
Patch support ends for CR 2008 on December 31, 2015.
If I install 2008 will I use a different reference in my application instead of 11.5.3700.0 ?
Yes. Crystal Reports 2008 is version 12.0 product and all CR 2008 assemblies are of 12.0 version. So your references would be 12.0
What needs to be installed on the 2008 server and what will the IIS setting be (running as 32 bit)?
.CR 2008 runtimes (of appropriate SP) should be installed on the server. CR 2008 only has 32 bit runtimes so make sure IIS is running under 32 bit.
Morever,
Few things to do while migrating on dev machine.
- Open the project in either VS 2005 or VS 2008.
- Remove all earlier references (11.x).
- Assign new CR references (12.0) and recompile the app.
- Not to forget, upgrading your reports to CR 2008 by opening them in CR 2008 designer and checking if everything is working as expected.
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Reporting Services Point - possibly permissions issue
I'm having a really hard time configuring a working reporting services point in my test SCCM 2012 R2 environment and was hoping someone might be able to help me work out what's gone wrong.
My servers are WS2008 R2. SQL Server 2008 R2 is installed on the primary site server and holds the site database. I installed SSRS onto a separate site server and added it as a reporting services point. This worked, and I see the list of
reports in the SCCM admin console. However, when I try to run a report - either from the console or via web browser - I get this message:
The default value expression for the report parameter 'usertokensids' contains an error. There are no logon servers available to service the logon request. (rsRuntimeErrorInExpression)
at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReportSoapProxy.OnSoapException(SoapException e)
at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.RSExecutionConnection.ProxyMethodInvocation.Execute[TReturn](RSExecutionConnection connection, ProxyMethod`1 initialMethod, ProxyMethod`1 retryMethod)
at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.Internal.Soap.ReportingServices2005.Execution.RSExecutionConnection.LoadReport(String Report, String HistoryID)
at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReport.EnsureExecutionSession()
at Microsoft.Reporting.WinForms.ServerReport.SetParameters(IEnumerable`1 parameters)
at Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.AdminConsole.SrsReporting.ReportViewerWindowsForms.SetParameterValues_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
SMSAdminUI.log shows this message:
[25, PID:3096][06/12/2014 11:24:05] :[fqdnofprimaryserver] : The request failed with HTTP status 503: Server Error.
Now, the reason I think this is a permissions issue is because srsrp.log on the Reporting Point server shows this:
(!) Error retrieving folders - [Login failed for user 'domain\reportingservercomputername$'.].
(I've removed the actual name here, obviously.)
I'm really puzzled about what's going on here, what is trying to authenticate with the SSRS server's machine credentials, and what for. Looking in SQL Server Management Studio on the primary site server which hosts the SQL database, I can see that
the account has a login listed and it has its default schema listed as DBO. On the SSRS server, in Reporting Services Configuration Manager, the Report Server Service Account is set to a dedicated domain user account. The Current Report Server
Database Credential is set to my own Windows login using Current User - Integrated Security - I can't seem to get it to accept the dedicated user account.
Can anyone help me figure out what's gone wrong and how I fix it, please? I'm by no means a SQL person, and I'm at my wit's end with this!
Thanks,
MThe plot thickens.
The SSRS server has these:
"The report server has detected a possible denial of service attack. The report server is dropping requests for service from the IP address 192.168.113.163" (this is the IP address of the primary site system, which hosts the SQL database)
and then
"Report Server Windows Service (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database"
The primary site system, meanwhile, has got thousands of these:
"Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\SSRSSERVERNAME$'. Reason: Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error. Check for previous errors. [CLIENT: 192.168.113.164]" (that's the IP of the SSRS server)
The Windows firewall is off for both systems. They're on an isolated test network. I still don't understand where the setting is that tells it to make SQL queries using the SSRS server's machine account, rather than the dedicated service account
I created.
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"screen shot can't be saved" and other permissions issues
After having my iMac at the Apple Store for four days solving a problem with "quit unexpectedly" issues with all Apple built-in Apps on OS X Yosemite, I got the machine back with those problems solved. It involved re-installing OS X and restore files from backup. I thought all was well; the Genius Bar dude showed me that it's fixed. He said it took so long because of bizarre permissions issues he'd never seen before.
Now that I've lugged this 40lb machine back home (after verifying the fixes in the store) I now find that several (other) functions don't work. When I try to do a screenshot, I get this message:"Your screen shot can't be saved. You don't have permission to save this file in the location where screen shots are stored." Message could have been more helpful; the "location" is the desktop. Pretty descriptive, though. Seems I can't save anything to the desktop.
I tried creatng a folder on the desktop. Got this message: "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this". Type password and new folder appears. Drag the new folder to the trash, get same message..
I tried copying a file from a network drive to the desktop. I get this dialog: "Modifying Desktop requires and administrator name and password. I clicked "authenticate" and after a 3 minute delay (with "Preparing.." ) I get this dialog; "Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this". I type the password and the file appeared on the desktop. Before the work at the Apple Store, this never happened. BTW I have only one user account and it's marked "Allow user to administer this computer". Thinking something might be goofy with the pw, I changed it (took 3 minutes to do, oddly) and rebooted. No joy. Same thing happens when I try to drag something from the desktop to the trash. Long time "moving" message followed by having to provide and admin pw.
I tried to save a Safari attachment to the Downloads folder and got this message: "Safari could not download the file xxxxx because there is not enough free disk space". Since I have more than 600GB of available space, I think the message is wrong and that it's really a permission issue with the Downloads folder.
Tried to reset the password again. Click to unlock the Users & Groups panel, get "System Preferences is trying to unlock Users & Groups preferences. Type your password to allow this".
All this tells me that somehow Yosemite is in "nag" mode (reminiscent of Windows Vista.
Any ideas?
ChazBack up all data before proceeding.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership, permissions, and access controls to the default. If you've intentionally set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it, but you do need to follow the instructions below.
Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Triple-click anywhere in the following line on this page to select it:
sudo find ~ $TMPDIR.. -exec chflags -h nouchg,nouappnd,noschg,nosappnd {} + -exec chown -h $UID {} + -exec chmod +rw {} + -exec chmod -h -N {} + -type d -exec chmod -h +x {} + 2>&-
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take several minutes to run, depending on how many files you have. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1, if you prefer not to take it, or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open. In that window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
▹ Restart
from the menu bar. -
Permissions Issue, Colour Wheel, Hard Drive Issue??
Hi!
I have had issues with my mid 2009 MBP recently and I'm wondering what the best way to fix them would be.
First off, I have some major permissions issues with my accounts. I am using 3 different users regualrly on the same machine and needed to access files from the home folder so I changed them a long time ago, and am not sure how to fix that. I have repaired the permissions countless times in the disk utility and it seems like there's always loads more to do each time. When I varify the disk, it says its all okay.
Secondly, I have had the machine freeze on me several times while doing very little on it. This happened awhile ago, and thought that it was just the permisions thing and so I did that again, and it started working better, for awhile. It would go a few days or weeks before doing the same thing, sometimes not even getting past the apple logo on startup before freezing. This makes me think it may be a hard drive issue???????
This morning, I tried dozens of times to boot, with no success at all..... until about the 25th time when it miraculasly booted. I have run permissions repair a few more times and it seems to be working okay at the moment, but the problem seems to be happening more often over time.
To complicate matters, I am traveling at the moment and will not be home for several months. I purchased an external harddrive last night and was able to successfully back up my data.
Question 1: Is it the permissions that are causing these problems, or is it related to something else. The computer seems to work fine when its working, and then once in awhile, decides its not going to do anything.
Question 2: Would upgrading to Lion (currently running 10.6.8) fix the permissions issues or just carry them forward? I would like to consolidate the 3 users into one, if that would solve it. Does the migration utility preserve permissions or does it give you a brand new start?
Question 3: If neither solving the permissions or the OS upgrade would fix the problem and it does need a new harddrive, is it possible to buy one and install it myself? I do not have apple care left on this machine and am on a very tight budget. I am used to taking things apart and all that as part of my job and it seems simple enough. Where can you buy a replacement??
Hopefully someone out there will be able to help me out on this one.
Cheers!!!!
Brianbgroot422 wrote:
First off, I have some major permissions issues with my accounts. I am using 3 different users regularly on the same machine and needed to access files from the home folder so I changed them a long time ago, and am not sure how to fix that. I have repaired the permissions countless times in the disk utility and it seems like there's always loads more to do each time. When I verify the disk, it says its all okay.
Disk Utility permissions are separate from User account permissions.
This link is how to fix them
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2181549?start=0&tstart=0
Disk Utility will always show something to be needing repair, but that's ok
Apple supoort doc.
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?locale=da_DK
Verify Disk is good, that's a good thing.
To complicate matters, I am traveling at the moment and will not be home for several months. I purchased an external hard drive last night and was able to successfully back up my data.
Your data is backed up, hopefully not with TimeMachine alone, but if you did, then get another drive and backup data manually to that as well. If the TM drive gets messed up, it's a pain to get your data off of it.
Question 1: Is it the permissions that are causing these problems, or is it related to something else. The computer seems to work fine when its working, and then once in awhile, decides its not going to do anything.
Well you could call Apple for replacement 10.6.x disks, and just reinstall 10.6 and bundled programs, but this can kick out kext files out of the /System/Library/Extensions folder installed by some third party software.
This method fixes OS X, but doesn't touch your files or most programs.
Nor will this method fix your Users accounts if the issue is in there.
A creation of a new user, then deletion of the others, return files from backup (set permissions) will fix User folder issues if the above user permissions fix doesn't work.
(Of course you could wipe the drive from the 10.6 disk, but you have to install all software again)
Would upgrading to Lion (currently running 10.6.8) fix the permissions issues or just carry them forward?
No, you don't want to install Lion, it won't fix those issues in User folders, not only that Lion has it's own issues and doesn't work with a lot of older software etc. No use clusterfscking a already bad situtation when it's seems it's only localized to the User accounts.
I would like to consolidate the 3 users into one, if that would solve it.
Yes that could very nicely and tidy up things in the process.
What you do is transfer all files to one regular powered storage hard drive.
(Don't use/disconnect the TimeMachine drive for this as it preserves the users seperated and you don't want all those users back restoring with Migration Assistant)
Create the New User on the machine as Admin, log into it and delete all the other Users, transfer all your files back from the regular storage drive, changing all the permissions to yourself before placing them into their respective folders as they will have three different permissions.
Notes:
If you have a extensive iTunes playlists on one User (say #1), then create the new user with that same name (will require some work, create User 4, delete Users 1-3, reboot, create User 1, delete User 4) then transfer your iTunes folder to Music of that User 1 (same name as before). This will preserve the pathnames of your song locations and your playlists will be preserved.
(before you ask, no you can't combine playlists)
Also if you have photo's in iPhoto Library, you have to right click on it and "show package contents" inside is a folder called Originals, copy them out and import into the iPhoto of the User #1.
Does the migration utility preserve permissions or does it give you a brand new start?
Yes it preserves user permissions, no it doesn't give you a brand new start. Only a fresh install, creation of new users and then just transferring of files does that.
Nothing about TimeMachine or Migration Assistant gives one a "fresh start", it's if hosed, so is your restore.
If you want that sort of pristine protection, you need to clone your ideal boot partition/drive using Carbon Copy Cloner (free/donationware) occasionally as a hold the option key bootable drive, then you can erase and reverse clone the pristine saved clone.
One can also update the clone on occasion, this way keeping the clone pristine.
I maintain 3 clones time dated, even have my boot drive partitioned 50/50 and auto-cloned, this way I have two boot partitions on the road and two externals at home.
I never use TimeMachine, it's not bootable (well it is on 10.7.2 only to restore though)
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