HFS permissions from Windows 7

I tried the chmod commands posted, and my home directory is still invisible in Vista. My wife's, on the other hand, is visible. Both accounts were created in 10.5, and I did an in-place upgrade to 10.6 last week.

I solved my problem thanks to a tip in another forum. Turns out that X11 creates an .Xauthority file, and removing that file fixed my problem. Now I can see my files in Windows.

DJRumpy: were you using X11 before?

In your home directory. From Terminal, this should kill it:

rm ~/.Xauthority

Removing my .Xauthority file allowed me to see into my home directory too. Unfortunately only two of the dozen or so directories (namely ~/bin and ~/Documents) show up when browsing in Windows XP. Some of them had odd ownerships, but changing them to jeff:staff did nothing.

I used DJRumpy's method, creating an admin account, logging into it, deleting my main account, keeping the old home folder where it is.

Although OS X renames it "username (Deleted)". So I did the following...

sudo mkdir /Users/username
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Desktop
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Documents
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Downloads
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Library
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Movies
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Music
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Pictures
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Public
sudo mkdir /Users/username/Sites
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Desktop' /Users/username
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Documents' /Users/username
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Downloads' /Users/username
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Library' /Users/username
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Movies' /Users/username
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Music' /Users/username
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Pictures' /Users/username
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Public' /Users/username
sudo mv '/Users/username (Deleted)/Sites' /Users/username

This is from memory, please look it over, don't rely on my typing skills(or lack there of).
I then recreated my old account, logged into it, and deleted the now empty "/Users/username (Deleted)" folder.

All my setting short of my desktop picture and desktop icon spacing are back to normal as far as I can tell. Bootcamp HFS+ can now see the following folders (and all their contents I believe):

Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Library
Movies
Music
Pictures
Public
Sites

if "/Users/username/.Xauthority" was the problem, I effectively got rid of it by not copying it in the move.




Oh, I also edited the ACE on all the folders in /Users/username before going so far as I did.
Like so:

chmod -N ~/Desktop/
chmod -N ~/Documents/
chmod -N ~/Downloads/
chmod -N ~/Library/
chmod -N ~/Movies/
chmod -N ~/Music/
chmod -N ~/Pictures/
chmod -N ~/Public/
chmod -N ~/Sites/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Desktop/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Documents/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Downloads/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Library/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Movies/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Music/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Pictures/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Public/
chmod +a "everyone deny delete" ~/Sites/

Message was edited by: J_42

By the way, I have no ACL's in my home directory, nor any in the other users' directories whose files and directories are visible. FWIW last night I also did a directory rebuild with DiskWarrior, but that had no effect at all.

For me this doesn't appear to be ACL-related.

It doesn't rename it back to username, it makes one called username, so I made a username folder, moved the folders into it, then created the account, and said yes tousing the existing username folder.

First of all your the acl you put ("1: user:ron allow list,add_file,...") on the folders are you and you
already have permission to view them. When in windows, obviously the program blocks all regular
users and doesn't care who you are. Your acl's should be directed towards staff or admin or everyone.
example : chmod -R +a "staff allow allow list,add_file,..." /Users/ron/Music

Yes the -R option works the same for acl's too.

Kj

I have no idea of the mechanics behind all this, but maybe I can add something to the conversation.
I have two iMacs at home. Yesterday, I installed Snow Leopard in both machines. Today, I installed Windows XP SP3 via boot camp in both machines. The funny thing is that, from the windows partition in my new iMac I can't see the Users folder (and below); however, in the old iMac, from windows I can perfectly see the contents of the Users folder and the contents of all the user accounts.

Using terminal in the /Users folder (ls -ale, as recommended in this thread), the only difference is that in my old iMac I can see a line like this:

0: group:com.apple.sharepoint.group.1 allow search

In the other mac, ls -ale just gives me the expected list of user folders, permissions, etc.

Now, if I only were able to know how to reproduce the old iMac situation in the other one, I would be very happy.