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Unable to manage file permissions

How do I fix the "You have unknown Access" problem at the end of the directory path when all preceding directories and/or files have "Read & Write" permission for everyone?



Mac mini, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jul 6, 2023 7:53 AM

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Jul 6, 2023 12:18 PM in response to Barney-15E

Thanks for the reply Barney-15E… maybe fixed was the wrong term. I do wAnt to empty trash basically and it tells me being used by another program… Have tried all steps in support site around this issue with inability to empty the trash with no success yet… Read stuff around working with SIP, etc… not sure what to do right now…

Jul 6, 2023 3:11 PM in response to Old Toad

It was a holdover from migrating from a 2017 iMac to a new Mac Mini… I had been trying to sort through some of what appeared to be duplicated files. These came from what appeared to somehow be from the older iMac… also involved “core duet” which info said was from an app that wasn’t being used anymore and not needed. So… it and subdirectories ended up in trash… big mistake going off on that tangent!

Jul 6, 2023 6:05 PM in response to Old Toad

That was quite a few steps back so I actually lost track of the location (I know, stupid!)…

Found a possible clue that it may have been a leftover related to Bombich Software which would be Carbon Copy Cloner which was from the old iMac HDD upgrade a few years back. Apparently it did not get totally uninstalled on the iMac…

Jul 6, 2023 7:27 PM in response to cpfromnj

Hmmm, odd, well, it may have something to do with your upgrade path, from HFS to APFS, the permissions are different and that is likely the problem, what I’d say you do is this, barring any of the other solutions do not resolve your issue. Back up the files, excluding the ones you want to delete to a Time Machine snapshot from your old iMac and then just restore what you want to keep.

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