Finder requires password for moving or deleting files every time.

Hi, I had the same Problem.

Even if I deleted files, my Trash won't fill and couldn't be emptied although the files dissapeared from my folders.

Then I detected, that Admin or MyAccount (Me) had no permissons on my Systemdisc Macintosh HD. I added Admin Read&Write and now it works.

Well, if this is only affecting files on your desktop, you could try executing the following command in the Terminal:

sudo chmod -R 755 ~/Desktop/*

That should change the permissions on everything in the Desktop folder to what they ought to be.

Hi Neloigator- I'm having exactly the same problem. I have the second 'everyone' permission, although mine seems to have come from the Time machine backup.

I'll keep watching this post until someone provides an answer.

All the best.

I have the same problem after installing Lion and tried your remedy. Found out the same permission for the trash and changed it. Also repaired permissions. Nothing works. I don´t want to make a clean install because of this bug. I´ll drag on with this until Apple has fixed the bug.

It doesn't seem like file permission issue, rather a directory permission issue, I assume the home directory. Do you have multiple user accounts on this computer? Are you definitely logging into the computer with the same account that owns the files?

If you create a second, test account on the computer, are you able to copy and delete files with it?

When you say you did a clean install, I assume you don't mean that you reformatted the drive and installed Lion from nothing; because that would be weird.

I created a testaccount that worked perfect. And deleted items also stayed in the waste until i deleted them. I´m making a new premission repair again and will also log in as root to see what´s happening there. I also realize that this problem propably started already with snowleopard and have now excalated with Lion. In s swedsih thread about this anothert user also complained over that when he deleted files usin command backstage ( and then writing the pw)they disapppeared without passing the wste. This also happened to me in that time when I could deleti with shortcut but without getting promted with PW.

Try this:

1. Open your Finder

2. Under Favorites, click on the house icon. It should have your short name next to it.

3. Right click on your documents folder and select "Get info"

4. Unlock it with your password (if necessary) by clicking on the lock icon on the bottom right.

5. Click on Your name (Me) to select it. Make sure it stays highlighted.

6. If the Privilege is not set to Read & Write change it to Read & Write.

7. At the gear icon drop down at the bottom of this window select Apply to Enclosed items.

If this works, you may need to repeat these steps for other folders that are not in your documents window.

I have tried everything. Started up from Lion partition and repaired harddisk and permissions. Checked a.o trash and find that I have permissions needed.I have checked my other accounts ond those no password is needed to trash. By the wsay during this I also used root and now I can´t log out from root

Is it time for bugreports?

I have done it and the permissions on the dokument folders are OK. This problem is on alla files for example pictures, screenshots etc.

I can't tell if you tried the steps I gave you on the Pictures folder or not. Try it and if it works, let me know and I'll take you through doing your whole disk drive at once.

Steve

Solution from Pocahontas in the swedish Mac forum. gå to map of HD map and click info. change permission so also everyone can read and write. That did the trick for me.

That's bad advice. "Everyone" should not normally have write access to your hard drive. Not to mention that if you made the mistake of applying that change to all enclosed items, you'd bork your entire system. You'd end up having to reinstall the system.

There are a lot of people chiming in here with problems that are NOT the same as Noleigator's and with solutions that do not apply to his particular situation (only having trouble with the desktop). Those people need to start their own topics so as not to screw up Noleigator's topic. Please be considerate.

So, I guess the problem is not with the desktop folder. I'm honestly not sure what's going on here, but I still think you need to try resetting the permissions on your user account. I finally located some instructions for doing that in Lion, though I have to preface this by saying I haven't tried it. That said, see:

http://drtyhnds.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-reset-password-in-mac-os-lion.html

Instead of resetting the password at the end, click the Reset button in the bottom right corner of the window.

Check your File Vault settings under security and privacy. If the File Vault is turned on, it will require a password for every move.