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[tech] mac folder permissions
 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2007-06-20 15:37 [#02095548]
Points: 8833 Status: Regular



so as some of you may have seen me mention before, i
recently got my macbook back from having beer spilled on it
and the thing spending over a month at apple to get fixed.

so the techs who i gave the comp to did manage to copy my
harddrive (which was really the only surviving part of the
whole machine), which included a windows partition for boot
camp.

since i have gotten back the computer, i cannot delete the
folder which was originally my windows partition, nor can i
repartition my harddrive. every time i try, it says i do
not have sufficient permissions for doing this. this
happens even when i am logged in as the root user.

i would really like to be able to repartition my harddrive
so i can get back to using my cracked version of ableton
since there isnt one out for mac (arrg!), but with this one
folder being a little bitch, i cant! help!


 

offline vlari from beyond the valley of the LOLs on 2007-06-20 15:44 [#02095552]
Points: 13915 Status: Regular



mark the folder, press apple+i, or select File + Get Info
and there should be a section called Ownership & Permissions
at the bottom, you should be able to set it straight by
selecting the right one



 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2007-06-20 15:47 [#02095554]
Points: 8833 Status: Regular



when i try that, even as the root user, it still says i do
not have permission to.

also, if i try it on individual files, i get some odd error
message.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2007-06-20 16:24 [#02095571]
Points: 8833 Status: Regular



so i finally figured out how to just delete the folder in
the console, but now when i attempt to boot camp i get this
message:

Back up the disk and use Disk Utility to format it as a
single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume. Restore your
information to the disk and try using Boot Camp Assistant
again.

i checked my hdd, and it is formatted like that, but....
*whine*whine*whine*


 

offline warpphex from lurkston, ziltyland. (United Kingdom) on 2007-06-20 17:02 [#02095584]
Points: 1372 Status: Lurker



have you tried repair permissions in disk utility ?

 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2007-06-20 17:04 [#02095585]
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apple alt control dot com

 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2007-06-20 20:25 [#02095634]
Points: 8833 Status: Regular | Followup to warpphex: #02095584



yep. permissions do not seem to be the problem at this
point...


 

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