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niccas Author

Level 4

1,924 points

Lion Permissions Problem

I'm struggling with what I think is a permissions problem on Lion..

I purchased a new MBAir 11" and restored my files by copying them manually from a backup of my home folder - this is always how I have done it. I did have to change the Library folder flag to unhidden as found somewhere else on this forum.

The first issue I encountered was that every time I logged out and logged back in, the machine was 'reset' to the state it was in hours earlier. I couldn't change any settings, they would reset themselves. (e.g. changing trackpad settings would reset when I exited system preferences). Also if I used Safari to browse a bunch of sites, none of the history was saved. The history would show everything up to a certain point and wouldn't save anything past that.

I created a new user account and that account was obviously fine. So I copied all of my files from the old user account to the new user account. The problem I am having now is that any time I try to change a file in my home folder (e.g. rename) i am prompted for my password. I tried to reset permissions but that doesn't help.

Would appreciate any suggestions. TIA.

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 22, 2011 11:17 PM

49 replies

mo'green

Level 1

14 points

Apr 25, 2012 5:02 PM in response to albertodoped

Been hacking at these issues and problems like having to reauthorize/re-register many programs every time I opened them for more than a week now after migrating to a newer MacBook Pro and upgrading to Lion (I've been postponing as long as possible, but the end of me.com is kind of forcing you - isn't it?).

These two lines in Terminal seem to have taken care of those problems at the very least.

Thanks a million times;)

mo'green

Level 1

14 points

Apr 25, 2012 5:03 PM in response to cgDesign

It worked like a charm for me. Thanx man;) I was really getting on the brink of a breakdown .....

JWilson

Level 1

0 points

May 14, 2012 12:16 PM in response to niccas

Guys,

I've been dealing with the Trash permissions thing this morning and I've got it working for me using the following method.

This is for user permissions for the account that I migrated via a Time Capsule back up from another machine.

I logged out of the migrated account and logged back in to the Admin account. I went to the migrated user folder and did "get info". I added another user in that window – the migrated user, and gave read/write permissions. Clicked the padlock a couple times just to make sure the action cleared permissions, then closed the window.

I logged out of the admin account and back in to the migrated account and everything worked fine.

Not sure if it could be so simple, but it worked for me. 🙂

_green_

Level 1

14 points

Mar 11, 2013 6:00 PM in response to cgDesign

Perfect this worked for me too!!! ...what a relief to not see that permissions warning on everything I try to open. I just hope it works for future files, and that I don' have to keep doing this for every new file on my mac.

Lion Permissions Problem