![]() The UNIX side of X can be very complicated, and is something the average Mac user has never encountered. It is my personal opinion that situations like this should never happen. It is Apple's claim that OS X is still as easy as it ever was, with the power of UNIX hiding underneath for those that want to utilize it. When I have users calling me and asking questions like why they don't own the folders and documents on their hard drive, and therefore cannot trash or delete things on what they see as THEIR COMPUTER, Apple has not delivered on that claim. I have fourteen years of Mac hardware and software support. If I have to take a whole day figuring out a problem like this, what chance does my sister or my dad have fixing these types of problems? I worked support at Motorola, and was manager of Citibank's technical support, taking care of all Macs by myself, plus doing PC calls. I'm pretty sure this site is meant to help other people. If one other person avoids re-installing all of OS X using this hint, then it has served its purpose.ĭid you even HAVE this problem? Did the KBase fix work for you? It sounds like your permissions are screwed up all over the place. ![]() Did you try to change things so you had read-write privs for everything? Don't fight the system, man. The default permissions are set that way for a reason. If you can't modify a file, you really need to think twice about whether or not you should. Also, recursive chmod's are generally a Bad Idea. This "fix" for this problem is, assuming you have enabled the root account: you% su (the superuser, su, can do whatever they like) If you need to modify an unwritable file, it is usually best to use sudo to modify it and just leave the perms alone. You% This will repair the sudoers file so you can use the sudo command and follow the steps in the above post. However, it sounds to me like your system is fscked. (No, I'm not talking about the fsck command.) I would strongly recommend that you re-install. If you can't do a clean install, at least re-install the latest system CD you have over the top of your current install and go through the updates to 10.1.4 again.
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