Unable to write to Filevault home folder

I am logged in under my user account with Administrator privileges. However, I am not able to write to the Home folder of my account. I have Filevault enabled, and notice there is a little padlock on the filevaulted-icon of my Home folder. Doing a Get Info shows me that the folder is indeed Locked (via check box), but it is a greyed-out box, so I have no access to it.
Any suggestions on how to even attempt getting this resolved? Because I cannot write, it is affecting my back-up program, Mail prefs won't open and other little annoying things. I would have done an erase and reinstall long ago, but since my laptop can't properly back-up, I am nervous about losing everything.
help!

I'm having the same issue here.
Looks like it is allowed to create sub directories on VHD from LOW INTEGRITY processes, but not for files. It's as if FILE_ADD_SUBDIRECTORY is set, but FILE_ADD_FILE/FILE_WRITE_DATA is missing. ACL including Integrity level on filesystem is set to Full
Control and LOW like Kat says here.
Kat, do you have any progress on this? Anyone?

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Bootstrapper Crash Need to Backup FileVault Home Folder Before Rebuilding

Bottom Line (yes repeated at the bottom ;-))
How do I mount the sparse bundle (FileVault created) from the limited resources available on the OS X install DVD so I can check the integrity of contents, or even just copy the contents unencrypted?
I may just take this into the Genius bar, assuming the correct Evil Genius is available, but if I can get help here it will save me the drive across town.
Background:
Power fault and a hard shutdown, now my iMac won't boot.
Backup of Home folder is about 3 months old using Backup utility (no lectures please, long story)
I would like to backup what I have before doing anything dramatic (like erasing the drive and starting over)
I am using FileVault, which I suspect will complicate things (albeit the backup I do have is unencrypted and in the safe) and was able to copy most (but not all) of the sparse bundle.
I.e., I believe both the system files and my home folder have issues.
I would be satisfied with even an unencrypted copy of the files in the home folder (FileVault sparse bundle), but I am having trouble backing anything up (I/O error, which may mean that a band inside the sparse bundle is corrupted as well).
Possibly Relevant Details:
Single User Mode (i.e., via Command-S) does not reach prompt
Instead I see several "disk0s2: I/O error." with the error details followed by "The system bootstrapper has crashed"
It does point to the specific file issues, but at this point I am less concerned with the system files than I am with the Users home folders (mine and the kids)
Using the OS X DVD and launching Disk Utility the repair disk does not work (even when repeated, which has worked on other disks before).
Invalid sibling link on Verify followed by Invalid node structure (fails trying to rebuilding the catalog b-tree... invalid node structure and invalid record count repeated several times followed by invalid key length, then repair gives up.
Disk Utility unmounts the volume and won't let it re-mount.
Managed to re-mount by forcing the drive to be the start-up disk (Power On with Option key) and then re-started again from the DVD.
Could not figure out how to force the mount from the Terminal.
Again, running from the DVD and then using Terminal I can see the volume (../../../Volumes/Macintosh\ HD) and what appears to be the contents.
On a whim I tried to copy the Users folder to an external drive and then saw the error message about the FileVaulted sparse bundle (file .mtkessel in Users)
Copying the kids home folders this way worked, so the only problem appears to be my home folder (which is a sparse bundle).
Specifically, the "I/O Error" reported by cp is in .mtkessel/mtkessel.sparsebundle/bands/1 and 10... all of the other bands and the related Info and token objects copy just fine. I suppose it is possible that those bands are ones slated for reclamation at the next logout, but I can't be sure.
So I suppose the question is how do I mount the sparse bundle (FileVault created) from the limited resources available on the OS X install DVD so I can check the integrity of contents, or even just copy the contents unencrypted?
Thanks in advance on this ugly problem...
mk

It took many hours to copy the FileVault sparsebundle (both size and device issues I suppose), but I managed to re-assemble it, including the "Rescued Items"; I just used the unix cp -R on the sparsebundle file to force the copy to report the I/O errors... about a dozen or so of the 9000+ bands are damaged.
Could not really tell if anything other than the "Rescued Items" were missing since bands can be deleted during normal use.
I then attached the sparsebundle (which is encrypted) with a shadow (i.e., this sparsebundle is not mountable)
This is the command I used from the directory containing the COPY of the sparsebundle.
hdiutil attach -encryption -noverify -ignorebadchecksums -nomount mtkessel.sparsebundle -shadow bundle.shadow
I am not entirely sure, but the shadow option allows read-only behaviors on the device to be circumvented by allowing write through the shadow...
Enter the password and then I had he "device" appeared in the dropdown menu in DW and then I was able to re-build it.
Then in Preview I was able to see a fully mounted device from which I have started copying. The damage was "easily corrected" according to DW. It may take several hours to copy as well (this time probably due to the decryption as it copies)
I am starting to experiment with the Mail import features to see if I can recover the e-mails... my first attempts of importing from both Apple mailboxes as well as mbox format did not work. And, simply copying the emlx files into the mbox destinations does not work... The items simply don't show up in Mail... I am sure I will figure it out eventually, but any advice on importing the emlx files would be much appreciated!
mk

Do I need to add my 'Home Folder' to options in the Time Machine?

I dont want to have my 'Home Folder' to be a unencrypted back up.
I know that Time Machine back up my encrypted sparseimage 'Home Folder' when I log out. FileVault is on.
But when I am log in, do I need to add my 'Home Folder' into the options button of Time Machine preferences. So that Time Machine does not back up my Home folder unencrypted?
This is what I have done, is this right or wrong? Time Machine is backing up my 'Home Folder' when I log out.

I bought my a new white macbook about couple of weeks ago & a Seagate ITb external HD using 400 Firewire cable.
I partition the macbook into 5 volumes. I turn on FileVault, then a day later turn on Time Machine. It seems to be working fine until I decided that I wanted 6 partition instead of 5. So, I partition my macbook into 6 volumes & use Time Machine to restore all my data.
Time Machine did restore everything, but when it finish & restarted, it stalled & I had to turn the macbook off, then on. I though everything was fine, then just after I posted my question above, time machine fail to back up, some error message stating it fail to link?
So I deceided to start from the beginning. I erased the external HD. Deleted the “com.apple.TimeMachine.plist” file from Preference folder. Restarted the macbook, open Time Machine, look inside the exclusion list & I notice that Time Machine put all external volumes into the exclusion list automaticlly including my FileVault 'Home Folder'. So I took out my 'Home Folder' from the list. Then back everything up. This seem to work, until I log out. I notice that Time Machine was not backing up my 'Home Folder' then I got that error message stating it fail to link?
Then I decided to turn off FileVault, then turn it on again. Deleted the “com.apple.TimeMachine.plist” file. Restarted the macbook, open Time Machine, delete my 'Home Folder' from the exclusion list. Then got Time Machine to do a back up. Log out & Time Machine was backing up my 'Home Folder'. Everything is working, so far!

Home Folder Sizes

Ok
I have a single server in a small office, only a handful of users.
The internal drive is partitened in two.
The first partition is for the Server software, and is about 25Gb.
The 2nd partition is for Data, at about 440 Gb.
On the data partition, there are two folders, one called 818, which houses everyone's home folder, and one called Rumpus, for data used with that program.
Most users Disc Quota are set to the 1Gb range, but one user has 175GB set as his quota.
When I am physically at the server, and log in as the user with the highest quota, the disc availability shows up as 436Gb, which is about right for the disc. The home folder only shows a size of 1.7Gb, which is what it shows when this user logs in from a client computer, which is much less that the quota.
So I'm tring to figure out how to get the server to recgonize that this user should be allowed more space than apparently the server is allowing.
In the Workgroup Manager, "Enable Disk Quota" is enabled for the entire partition, but the partition is NOT shared.
The 818 folder IS shared, but "Enable Disk Quota" is grayed out(I guess since this is not a disc, but just a folder)
Have I done something wrong, or is disk quotas not working correctly?
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Hey Criss
again thanks for the info.
doing the edquota command in the terminal gives this result:
quotas for user jeffrey:
/Volumes/Data: 1K blocks in use: 2090076, limits (soft = 0, hard = 2097151)
inodes in use: 5131, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
So it looks like I'm pretty much at the limit. No changes in WGM have any affect on this. Setting it to 150 Gigs or to no value still give me a over quota message when trying to write to this home folder.
I am a total idiot as far as the terminal goes... and I understand that the quota file for the drive needs to be edited in Terminal with the VI command you mentioned... I am at a loss as to how to get to that point.
The path to the home folder is as follows:
/Volumes/Data/818/jeffrey
so I'm guessing the command would be something like
sudo vi /Volumes/Data/.quota.user
but that just give me some big long hash file..
I'm guessing there is a command that will let me edit the file.... but I have no idea what it is....
Again, anythng to point me in the right direction is appreciated.

DW 8.0 OS 10.4.6 Network Home Folder unable to save

We have clients running 10.4.6 and MM DW8.0. The users have
home folders on windows servers running Extremezip. The clients
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When creating a site, the error message appear when trying to
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When I then try to save a HTML file in the users home folder,
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Our issues are related to the SMB protocol in an Active Directory environment.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8341273#8341273
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Okay, so just today I upgraded to Leopard, after the CD finished downlaoding, I logged into my account, and the Updater wanted me to update to 10.5.1, so I did. Updater asked me to restart, and after clicking the restart button, FileVault (I have it enabled) asked me if I wanted to recover disk space (it does this all the time) I skipped the process, and my computer restarted. It brought me to the login screen, and I clicked on my account, entered my password, and then a window pops up, telling me:
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Click OK to repair the folder and continue logging in.
Click Cancel Login to log in as a different user."
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First, chances are you have only one user on your computer. Even if you have two, we should start fresh with a new admin user. The following steps will reset your Mac to think that is has just received a brand new setup of OSX:
1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
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* shutdown -h now
Now, booting up your computer, enjoy the pretty light show, take a large breath, hold it for 10 seconds, then let it go. Grab a cup of coffee or a loved one and cuddle during this inspiring intro. Now, back to business. Setup your account as you would in any other circumstance. Just make sure you dont name your username the same as the one you used on this computer before. Make sure your password is longer than 8 characters as well (or so I have heard).
Now that you are inside your computer, you see that you still do not have access to your data. Lets take out the crowbar and proceed with the following steps:
4. Go to Macintosh HD/Users/ and locate the folder named the PREVIOUS administrator's account name which you cannot access. Click on the folder and go to FILE | GET INFO and under Sharing and Permissions ADD yourself as a user with Read & Write privileges.
5. Go inside this folder and perform the same command on the Username.sparseimage file as in step 4. Note the path of this file (i.e. /Users/UserName/UserName.sparseimage)
6. Go to Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities/Terminal
7. Type: sudo hdiutil attach /Users/username/username.sparseimage -nomount
8. A bunch of funky things will happen, but it eventually should list a number of volumes, one with an HFS attached to it, note if it says disk1s1 or disk2s2 or whatever.
9. Type: sudo fsck_hfs -f /dev/rdisk2s2 (rdisk2s2 being where the HFS was from step 8, adding an "r" at the front)
If fsck_hfs bails because of too many errors, just repeat until it says the FS is fine. That irks the bejeezus out of me as well, but has always worked for me so far.
10. Type: sudo fsck_hfs -frd /dev/rdiskXsY
This will rebuild the catalog file, which was my problem.
Now, finally, go back to that path where you found your sparsimage file, double-click it, enter your password and you just may be able to read the data! Success!!!
If you are smart, like I am at this very second, back up the data immediately to DVD. Once you have your backups, reinstall everything and just drop your data back in. Make it clean!
Remember, FileVault is a bitchen feature! But if you are ignorant enough, like I was, not to back up your data, whose fault is that? Cheers!

HT1203 I moved my Itunes media folder to my public folder in my home folder so that my wife can share my music when she logs on to my computer. Since then aperture has been unable to locate the music files and I cannot add any of my itunes files to a slid

I moved my itunes media folder to my public folder in my home folder so that my wife can share my music when she logs on as a user. Since doing this Aperture cannot locate any itunes music files and so I cannot add any music to a slideshow. All of my existing slideshows no longer play music. Can anyone help?
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I need to recover my old home folder that was protected via FileVault

Hello,
One day last year, my PowerBook G4 up and died on me... that it would boot up nicely but it would not get to the log in screen. I pretty much assumed that the PowerBook G4 was DOA and I bought a 15" MacBook Pro a week later. Now, I had a lot of important files in my home folder (i.e. scan of a Canadian visa, a large music library, etc) that I wish to restore.
I've purchased an enclosure last week and I put the hard disk that I extracted from the old mac into the new enclosure. I have been trying to recover the sparsebundle file which has my FileVault protected files because, even though the hard disk will mount and I can see my old Applications, Library and other folders, I can't find my home folder's sparsebundle. I was wondering, does anyone here know of any way that I can recover the old sparsebundle? Note that the hard disk has NOT been used since that happened and I have not changed the file structure on that hard disk (in other words, I have not been saving or deleting files or formatting the drive).
So, does anyone have any ideas? I know that PhotoRec doesn't exactly try to find sparsebundles (after all, sparsebundles don't have a header that they recognize, they only recognize these files) but it has been successful at pulling old Apple EULAs and old Apple TV ads from the hard disk (apparently, the former owner was a fellow Mac geek, who knew? ;-P ) as well as assets and icon sets from (mostly) old versions of Apple applications, a whole lot of plist and txt files that aren't my personal files... as House said, "a lot of apples, no candy bars". ;-P So I know files *can* be restored from this hard disk, I'm just looking for the candy bar in a sea of apples.
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I have tried to use the following command:
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I even tried to log in as root and do the same, and still ls -al shows root as owner..
I think i have been able to chmod the home folder though, because i can create and delete files in my users homedir.
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read a
read b
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echo "# (id generated from /etc/machine-id)"
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HT201240 migrating to OS 10.5 from 10.4. I forgot the password to my encrypted home folder and am unable to log in and reach the desktop.

It appears that I have lost the ability to log in and reach the desktop because of problems accessing my keychain for Filevault.So, I need to reboot from DVD, change my login password, which I can accomplish via the utilities menu in the startup OS 10.5 dvd, then change my filevault keychain password. OS 10.5 is installed on the macbook, by the way.
I need to find a way to a similar utility that allows me to change the keychain password to filevault from the dvd as well. Is there a way to do this through the utilities menu? Changing the keychain access is recommended elsewhere using Apple menu's System Preferences selection, but the selection is grayed out as is the entire Apple menu when I am at the startup installation screen, which is the same place I am able to access the utilities menu for the login password change. Please help. Thanks

Ouch, the Filevault/Master Password is totally different.
One of the drawbacks of encrypting data is that if the user forgets his or her password, access to the files in the home folder is lost. If an account has FileVault enabled, an administrator user cannot use Accounts preferences to change that account's password, nor can the administrator user turn off FileVault for the account; only the user can do that.
Because users often forget passwords, Mac OS X provides a master password feature to allow passwords on FileVault-protected accounts to be reset. The master password is used only as a back door for recovering FileVault-encrypted accounts. If during login a user enters three incorrect passwords for his or her FileVault-encrypted account, the account's password hint is displayed along with a Reset Password button. After the user clicks Reset Password and enters the master password (obtained from the administrator), he or she can set a new login password.
If you forget the master password, you can reset it, but you must know the passwords for any accounts with FileVault enabled:
As an administrator user, delete the master password keychain file (/Library/Keychains/FileVaultMaster.keychain). When the master password keychain is deleted, Mac OS X assumes that no master password is set yet.
In Security preferences, set a new master password.
Log in to each account that has FileVault turned on, and use Accounts preferences to reset the password for each account.
NOTE
Do not forget the master password! Although it is possible to reset the master password, it still requires all users with FileVault-protected accounts to know their passwords. If a user has forgotten his or her login password, and you have forgotten the master password, there is no way to recover the user's data.
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=420905&seqNum=3

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If you have a 90 GB home folder, it'll take forever. (And also be INCREDIBLY unreliable-do you really need every single file encrypted with U.S. Department of Defense level security?)
I recommend you make individual encrypted disk images for the private files.
Good luck!

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Hello, guys. I'm comparing FileVault and PGP WDE. I enabled FileVault on my MBP about 16 hours ago with about 30GB in my user folder, and it's been ""Deleting old Home folder" for at least 10 hours now.
I've not been able to find any accounts of how long this is supposed to take. Has anyone actually waited 16+ hours and had the thing complete?
I understand the pros and cons of using FileVault, but am wondering if the thing is supposed to work.

I didn't have enough free space the first attempt, and FileVault warned me. I freed up some space and moved some of my personal files to an external drive, and it allowed me to continue, the second time around.
This is my first FileVault attempt -- I'm really paranoid, and have two backups, just in case it fails!
I just did a hard reset, and my machine booted up properly. Now, I'll see if it is working OK...

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I turned FileVault on a long time ago and because of its size didn't turn it off before upgrading to Leopard. After the upgrade, it became obvious that FileVault had to go--it was occupying essentially the whole hard drive and spotlight didn't work. I searched out some instructions on how to work around FV to make space and found this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1974?viewlocale=en_US.
I followed the instructions to the letter except when I got the part where it says "Copy files from the disk image to your new account," I ran into trouble. Thinking it wasn't that big a deal, telling myself I could solve the issue later, I proceeded to nuke enough files in my original user account to give FV the room it needed to turn off. This included (stupid me) my LIbrary folder. When enough space was created, FV turned off and spotlight now works fine.
I won the battle but lost the war... That's because in Leopard, unlike Tiger (for which the instructions were written), you can't simply "Highlight all items in the sparse disk image and drag them into your new account's home folder." Not allowed.
I have everything safely stored on my handy external drive but other than transferring folder by folder, is there any other way to restore my home folder? Is there some super-secret workaround or is this the cautionary tale to all you other folks out there (like we need to hear it again): don't get impatient and pay attention to which operating system the instructions were written for. Tiger's troubleshooting articles are not interchangeable with Leopard's.
Hope I am saving someone else some grief by airing my tale of woe.
Best wishes,
T

Hi VK
Following the instructions in the link, I made a sparse disk image on an external drive and selected all items in my Home and copied them (by dragging) to the mounted sparse disk image.
Thanks,
t

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Home Folder Disappeared – not renamed, FileVault issue?

When I log on to my MacBook I receive a message to say that it can't find my home folder - it's just not there in the Users folder.
I have not renamed my home folder - it's just not there anymore.
There is an Alias with the same name as my username (the icon looks like the .mac world icon), the original item that this points to cannot be found. The alias is owned by 'system' and I cannot take ownership, rename or delete it.
The other user of the system's home folder is fine, as is the 'Shared' folder.
There is another folder in Users called MyUserName 1 - this only contains Library/preferences/By Host.
I use FileVault and the last time my home folder was there it did a space clean up when I shut down.
I was not doing anything the last time I used the system that could have led to accidentally deleting the folder (just checked some mails).
Any help gratefully received - I do take backups, but had just uploaded some photos the day before that are not backed up anywhere - I would really like not to loose those!
I'm thinking that as FileVault keeps the contents of my hme folder in a separate virtual disk, the link to this has been lost, hence the Alias... but I have no idea how to resolve this.

Sorted it... just about.
Found the FileVault file via another admin account and opened and copied it with the disk utility... just putting everything back together...

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