Why can't I label folders-Mac OS X 10.6.8

lately I have been having problems with labeling folders (Finder>File>Label).
I am using Snow Leopard - does any one have any tips?
I also can't drop folders into other folders (I get a ø sign)

Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
and copy/paste this:
sudo chown -R `id -un` ~
press 'return' and enter your password. It won't echo to the screen as you type, so type carefully.
Test for the problem.

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Upgrade Paths to Snow Leopard, Lion, and/or Mountain Lion
You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $19.99. To access the App Store you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later installed.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard — Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. Access to the App Store enables you to download Mountain Lion if your computer meets the requirements.
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       1. Mac computer with an Intel processor
       2. 1GB of memory
       3. 5GB of available disk space
       4. DVD drive for installation
       5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider;
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       6. Some features require Apple’s iCloud services; fees and
           terms apply.
Upgrading to Lion
If your computer does not meet the requirements to install Mountain Lion, it may still meet the requirements to install Lion.
You can purchase Lion by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service — this includes international calling numbers. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download. You will get an email containing a redemption code that you then use at the Mac App Store to download Lion. Save a copy of that installer to your Downloads folder because the installer deletes itself at the end of the installation.
     Lion System Requirements
       1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7,
           or Xeon processor
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       4. 7GB of available space
       5. Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.
Upgrading to Mountain Lion
To upgrade to Mountain Lion you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Purchase and download Mountain Lion from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
     OS X Mountain Lion — System Requirements
       Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
         1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) — Model Identifier 7,1 or later
         2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) —
             Model Identifier 5,1 or later
         3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) — Model Identifier 2,1 or later
         5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
         7. Xserve (Early 2009) — Model Identifier 3,1 or later
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Are my applications compatible?
         See App Compatibility Table — RoaringApps.
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The drives themselves weren't damaged (by trying to do something like write to the drive's firmware), but the rootkit was installed on any computer you put a loaded disk in.
I had a couple of legally purchased CDs from that era, and they never played right. They would skip, stall and even spontaneously eject. And this was in various music CD players (home player, car), which the rootkit wasn't supposed to affect.

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Launch the Console 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 Console in the icon grid.
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View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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Why can I not have the MAC app store application with my software update?

You need to be running v10.6 Snow Leopard.
http://www.apple.com/mac/app-store/
You can upgrade to Snow Leopard for $29.00 if your Mac meets the minimum requirements.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY

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Photoshop CS2 or older
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No one who reads these forums can take care of your request.
Try filing feedback and suggesting that as an extra feature.
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Do I need to AUTO sync to get the folder heirarchy and songs created under the PLAYLISTS heading onto the iPod?
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*Why are you creating playlists for albums and artists?*
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+The earlier version of iTunes DID allow you to create folders in the iPod+
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Yes the feature HAS BEEN removed. I currently am holding a prior generation nano in my hand which, in iTunes 6, allows me to MANUALLY create folders in it and drag playlists to the folders. I can nest folders and create any hierarchy I want. Since I am doing it MANUALLY, I can use the same ipod on several computers and collect selected audio files from each of those computers. The new version of iPod/iTunes simply has REMOVED this feaure and it is now only available if you autosynch. Like I said, I currently have free use of folders on an older gen ipod in MANUAL mode.
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Being a person with great interest in photography, video and moviemaking I made a big personal investment a couple of years ago in buying what I thought was the best available computer on the market for multimedia projects for the time being, that is a well equiped Mac Pro (Processor 2x3 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon with Memory 8 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 FB-DIMM). After that I also upgraded my Mac Pro with a better graphic card (ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB) and extra HDD´s Up till now there has been no problem to upgrade my computer to every new realesed OS software (latest OS X Lion 10.7.04) from Apple, but when recently trying to download the latest version of OSX, that is Mountain Lion, this posibility seems to have come to an endpoint! When I try to upgrade to Mountain Lion, I get the message that this is not possible with my Mac Pro (in which I for sure totally up til now have invested at least 70-80 000 swedish kronor (10 - 12 000 dollars).
Is this really so, and if so, why has Apple in this way seemingly abandoned all those earlier loyal customers over the world who by investing their money in Apple´s Pro line of products like Mac Pro´s, have contributed so much in building the good reputation and economic ground for the development of Apple in becoming such a sucessful company? Even if Mac Pro still is a strong and competive computer for the time being, this discontinuation of softwaresupport for the big stock of sold Mac Pro computers world wide, remarks a crossroad from where in the long run, Mac pro´s will become useless and therefore also worthless in such an extent that heir owners once more have to make investments in new hardware from Apple, taking for granted that they find it still being a value in being trustful to the Apple line of computer products.
While a company as a rule always willl find ways to make investments in new hardware of great quality if this is calculated to increase the income of the company, the sitaution is totally different for all independent and creative people over the world who have a much lower budget for their projects and as a rule get no profit from their work but their personal joy and emotional satisfaction.
Do I really have to through my Mac Pro away (it will probably be impossible to sell it to a worthy price after Apple now has discontinued supporting the development of it´s OS ) or do I have to buy a new Mac Book Pro with Retina Display and Thunderbolt Interface of latest version in order to feel safe in continuing using Apple´s Pro applications for multimedia projects foor the future with reliable continued support from Apple (and in that case for how long I ask myself), or is there any possibility to upgrade the hardware of my Mac Pro in order to upgrade to latest OS software and still feel being a member of the sanctioned Apple club?
Alternatively, maybe Apple can help all Mac Pro owners to make it possible to upgrade to needed Apple hardware and software line of their Pro applications, and thus continue to support Apple in using and inspire developing their products and Pro market shares as well as continue to spread their good reputation in this area, in supporting these reliable customers in some way, as an example by giving a discount to all Mac Pro owners upgrading to a new computer from Apple.
Maybe this in fact is the first step from Apple in a plan to soon stop selling the model Mac Pro because the latest compact Mac Book Pro´s already has exceeded the old clumpsy Mac Pro´s in function, versatility and potential for future development. If so this Apple´s decision is logic and understandable, but please don´t abondon all customers of Mac Pro´s all over the world who have been utterly fidele to Apple in helping the Company to spread the good reputation of Apples computers to ordinary people through the years and thus to a great extent have contributed in buildning the necessary market expectations that have made it possible for Apple to develop and sell new products to a continuing growing market by fulfilling and helping ordinary peoples daily needs. I believe that without these earlier pioneers and supporters of Apple´s ever innovative productline, its not taken for sure the Apple Company should have reached this all time incredible height of success we all can witness today...
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what a long post....Apple, btw, does not read this stuff, so ranting, raving, and complaining here might make you feel good, but it does no good at all. That being said, I, too have a Mac Pro Quad Core Xeon with 6 gigs of ram and an nVidia 8800 GT graphics card (not as good as yours, alas) and I've had no problems at all with it. Yes, it doesn't have Thunderbolt, but maybe we Mac pro owners will get lucky and someone will come out with an adapter (probably not). No, you probably don't have to throw away your Mac Pro, but if you do, I'll take it, for a small "recycling" fee >:-) That was a joke. Yes, the Mac Pro's future isn't quite clear, YET. Hopefully that will improve very soon. As for not being able to upgrade to Mountain Lion. Don't worry about that too much, Nobody is forcing you to do that. Your Mac Pro won't quit working if it isn't installed. From what I've heard, you should give the new OS a chance, and wait to get it, in case there might be some bugs, or stuff not working with the new OS, which has been known to happen. Yes, we Mac Pro owners don't like being treated like mushrooms-kept in the dark, and being fed......... but Apple is Apple and it will do what it does, and there is nothing you or me can really do to change that. All I can say is....trust, have faith, be patient, go for a walk, do something else to take your mind off of this problem. IF apple decides to drop the Mac Pro for good, and that's a big "IF", I think they will anger a whole bunch of people
which isn't good. However, that hasn't happened...YET. Let us hope that it doesn't
John B

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On Monday I started hammering away at getting the LDAP server setup on the Linux server with openldap. I was able to get a test Mac running Leopard to see the LDAP server and the accounts. The next battle was to get home directories to mount under /home. I was about to do that after finding a working ldif example using automaster and autohome. After that I was able to get the Public share automatically mounted on /Network/Public. Wonderful!
Tuesday I came in thinking that the next battle would be with Samba. Unfortunately, somewhere in powering off the Mac and rebooting it, I lost all the share mounting! It still sees the accounts, but it absolutely will not see the mounts. In trying to figure it out I have wiped the LDAP database and restarted it, I have wiped the test Mac twice, I have made sure the Mac is running the latest updates, and still nothing.
If I go into dscl this is now what I see:
ls Automount/
Record Name Unknown
Record Name Unknown
ls AutomountMap/
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dsAttrTypeNative:cn: 10.110.1.1:/share/public
dsAttrTypeNative:objectClass: mount top
AppleMetaNodeLocation: /LDAPv3/10.110.1.1
RecordName: 10.110.1.1:/share/public
RecordType: dsRecTypeStandard:Mounts
On the LDAP server, the records look like:
dn: automountMapName=auto_master,ou=mounts,dc=example,dc=com
automountMapName: auto_master
objectClass: top
objectClass: automountMap
dn: automountKey=/home,automountMapName=auto_master,ou=mounts,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: automount
automountKey: /home
automountInformation: auto_home
dn: automountMapName=auto_home,ou=mounts,dc=example,dc=com
automountMapName: auto_home
objectClass: top
objectClass: automountMap
dn: automountKey=*,automountMapName=auto_home,ou=mounts,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: automount
automountKey: *
automountInformation: 10.110.1.1:/home/&
dn: cn=10.110.1.1:/share/public,ou=mounts,dc=example,dc=com
mountDirectory: /Network/Public
objectClass: mount
objectClass: top
mountType: nfs
cn: 10.110.1.1:/share/public
It looks like for some reason it's either missing entries from the LDAP server, and/or it's ignoring some of the mapping and leaving them out. The Mounts entry is missing the VFSLinkDir which maps to mountDirectory. The Automount stuff is missing the RecordName which maps to automountKey and automountMapName.
What the heck happened? Why does the Mac refuse to see the LDAP server the way it did on Monday?

I am having something similar going on and can't sort out what it is doing:
ldiffs:
dn: automountMapName=auto_master,dc=example,dc=edu
objectClass: top
objectClass: automountMap
automountMapName: auto_master
dn: automountKey=/foo,automountMapName=auto_master,ou=Mounts,dc=soe,dc=ucsc,
dc=edu
objectClass: automount
automountKey: /foo
automountInformation: auto.foo,dc=example,dc=edu -rw,resvport,
hard,intr,nosuid,tcp
Second one:
dn: automountMapName=auto.foo,dc=example,dc=edu
objectClass: top
objectClass: automountMap
automountMapName: auto.foo
dn: automountKey=tstaff,automountMapName=auto.foo,dc=example,dc=edu
objectClass: top
objectClass: automount
automountInformation: fileserver:/export/foo/tstaff
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9/25/09 11:45:25 AM com.apple.automountd[1101] t0xb0289000 name=tstaff[] map=auto.foo,dc=example,dc=edu opts=rw,resvport,hard,intr,nosuid,tcp path=/foo direct=0
9/25/09 11:45:25 AM com.apple.automountd[1101] t0xb0289000 getmapent_ds called
9/25/09 11:45:25 AM com.apple.automountd[1101] t0xb0289000 getmapent_ds: key=[ tstaff ]
9/25/09 11:45:25 AM com.apple.automountd[1101] t0xb0289000 ds_match called
9/25/09 11:45:25 AM com.apple.automountd[1101] t0xb0289000 ds_match: key =[ tstaff ]
9/25/09 11:45:25 AM com.apple.automountd[1101] t0xb0289000 ds_match: Searching for tstaff,automountMapName=auto.foo,dc=example,dc=edu
9/25/09 11:45:25 AM automountd[1101] ds_search failed
exiting ...
It seems like it can't find the trigger point tstaff. It is looking for:
ds_match: Searching for tstaff,automountMapName=auto.foo,dc=example,dc=edu
which isn't what the DN is in ldap:
Distinguished Name: automountKey=tstaff,automountMapName=auto.foo,dc=example,dc=edu
any thoughts?
regards,
Derek

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Why can't I label folders-Mac OS X 10.6.8

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