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Jan 27, 2016 2:31 PM in response to KarlimusMeridiusby Niel,Your files will remain unless a problem occurs.
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Jan 27, 2016 2:32 PM in response to KarlimusMeridiusby KarlimusMeridius,Will it allow us to set up an account as we locked ourselves out of it by accident in the get info window of the hard disk : (
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Jan 27, 2016 2:34 PM in response to Nielby KarlimusMeridius,Hi Neil, thanks for that we are going for the reinstall, find it difficult to believe that Apple would allow an account to be locked out (Grey out) if we were testing what the account settings did.
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Jan 27, 2016 2:39 PM in response to KarlimusMeridiusby steve359,Apple cannot lock out all experiments. "Repair Permissions" is supposed to undo damage from personal experiments, and ElCapitan SystemIntegrityProtection locking critical directories is supposed to further prevent experimental-damage.
The users in this forum can help guide you before running other experiments.
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by Grant Bennet-Alder,Jan 27, 2016 7:14 PM in response to KarlimusMeridius
Grant Bennet-Alder
Jan 27, 2016 7:14 PM
in response to KarlimusMeridius
Level 9 (60,904 points)
DesktopsIf your other thread is accurate, you manually locked yourself out of your Startup Disk by changing its permissions.
Neil gave you explicit instruction in his User Tip for how to fix that.
kmosx: I accidentally set a disk's permissions to No Access
Did you follow them? Did it work? If not, you need to go, step by step back through his instructions and be sure you understand what was supposed to happen at each step. There were some substitutions you were supposed to make, for example he wrote:
sudo chown root "/Volumes/volumename/"
You are supposed to know that when he wrote volumename, you enter the volume name of the drive you modified (which by default is Macintosh HD)
You are asking divergent questions without providing enough information. You are getting sidetracked away from the things that will fix your problem.
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Jan 27, 2016 7:39 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alderby KarlimusMeridius,You always this rude and presumptuous? Leave you to it!
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Jan 27, 2016 7:43 PM in response to Nielby KarlimusMeridius,Hi Neil, we reinstalled Yosemite via the Utilities mentioned and then continued with El Capitan, it resolved the issue! Thanks.
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Jan 27, 2016 7:43 PM in response to KarlimusMeridiusby steve359,You set the permissions on ALL directories in the system to "anyone can do anything" instead of asking first how to safely clean unwanted material. Then you asked two different questions in two different threads.
It seems you performed this operation without having a valid backup, which is very risky.
The easiest recovery path is "restore the backup, then ask how to safely clean". As an alternate ... Niel, who is probably the smartest person in the ASC, gave you step-by-step instructions that you should follow.
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Jan 27, 2016 8:14 PM in response to steve359by KarlimusMeridius,...and you should read the replies before such misguided advice and intervention!