"You do not have sufficient access priveleges to rename the item"
Hi All,
I have a strange problem that has appeared over the last few weeks. I can no longer rename applications, and also have noticed that I am being asked for my admin password to allow for certain tasks that I was not prompted for previously.
For example, I had previously named the application "Cyberduck.app" to "FTP Cyberduck.app" with no problems. If I now attempt to rename the same application (or any other for that matter), I receive the message "You do not have sufficient access priveleges to rename the item".
I have tried several things to resolve this issue:
* "Disk Utility" > "Repair Disk Permissions" (from booted into the system, and also from the Mac Install CD). Either way, I see a list of permissions that have supposedly been repaired. However, I find that if I immediately run the repair again, the SAME folders and files are repaired (suggesting that they were not actually repaired first time round).
* "Password Reset" from the Mac install disk.
* "Repair account ACLs" from the Mac install disk.
All to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas for me (short of reinstalling?). I'd really like to get to the bottom of this issue incase it ever happens again.
Many thanks in advance,
AJ
JamesTurner84 wrote:
I can no longer rename applications, and also have noticed that I am being asked for my admin password to allow for certain tasks that I was not prompted for previously.
Have you done anything significant to your Mac since around the problems started, such as restoring a user with Time Machine? Do a Finder "Get Info" on your Mac's Application folder and look at the "Sharing & Permissions" sections. Mine shows "system: Read & Write, admin: Read & Write, and everyone Read only". What do you see? Do the same thing to the Cyberduck application. What do you see for it?
* "Disk Utility" > "Repair Disk Permissions" (from booted into the system, and also from the Mac Install CD). Either way, I see a list of permissions that have supposedly been repaired. However, I find that if I immediately run the repair again, the SAME folders and files are repaired (suggesting that they were not actually repaired first time round).
I think that permissions repair is highly overrated as a system fixing tool. In any case, see this Apple document on type of permissions repair messages that can be ignored:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448
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