Ownership and Permissions Trainwreck
Several programs started exhibiting very strange behavior over the last week or so (all of which I won't go into, but all indicating inability to access or write to something in my main user account Library), including Mail not being able to save its Preferences, giving me an error every time I try to close it saying the disk may be full or "permissions may not be set correctly" (something to that effect).
I have discovered that my main user account folder (which was the only account, but I've now created a temporary other admin account) has its "Sharing & Permissions" set to "system" and "admin" for Read & Write, and my USERNAME/Library folder and the USERNAME/Library/Preferences folder both have "system" and "wheel" set to Read & Write. All three of those have "everyone" set to "Custom."
I tried running BatCHmod to set MYUSERNAME as the owner and group for my main user folder, but it didn't change those three.
Now Mail is acting strangely, opening with one particular mail account selected every time it's opened or I reboot, no matter what account was selected when I quit, and that account always is scrolled to the very top of the list (which is sorted by date). This never used to happen. It would open to the last mailbox selected, and to the bottom (most recent) in the list.
Is there any way out of this nightmare?
I have discovered that my main user account folder (which was the only account, but I've now created a temporary other admin account) has its "Sharing & Permissions" set to "system" and "admin" for Read & Write, and my USERNAME/Library folder and the USERNAME/Library/Preferences folder both have "system" and "wheel" set to Read & Write. All three of those have "everyone" set to "Custom."
I tried running BatCHmod to set MYUSERNAME as the owner and group for my main user folder, but it didn't change those three.
Now Mail is acting strangely, opening with one particular mail account selected every time it's opened or I reboot, no matter what account was selected when I quit, and that account always is scrolled to the very top of the list (which is sorted by date). This never used to happen. It would open to the last mailbox selected, and to the bottom (most recent) in the list.
Is there any way out of this nightmare?
2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
