Finder keeps asking my for my password every time i want to move or delete files, How do i remove this?

This worked for me and so simple. Thanks a million.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It worked like magic. The trick was clicking the GEAR icon at bottom of "Get Info" dialog and clicking on Apply Subfolders.

Eduardo

THANK YOU for sharing your fix. After extensive Blogs and attempts... That is exactly what I needed.

Peace,

Ren

The issue was corrected by following the simple yet meticulously written post by CF461. It was really child's play. The important step is to choose the "apply to enclosed items" option in the end.

I faced the same problem after manually copying my folders from a time machine backup to my hard drive.

Now all those folders had this authentication issue.

After careful inspection I realized it that these files and folders had a plus sign on their access description. e.g:

$ la

drwxr-xr-x+
17 username admin  578Sep2522:20Documents

The

+

See http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/26776/what-is-the-mark-at-the-end-of-fi le-description

The solution (as provided in the link was to remove the ACL from the folder and everything inside of it:

chmod -R -N /path/to/folder

Sometimes, us regular folk are overwhelmed by the rest of those ‘computer pros’ [being kind] and what you say simply goes right over our heads? :/

So for those of you who are as ignorant about this device we are currently using as I am [no offense] I have the simple, layman’s FIX for the problem of continuous “Authentication Required” pop up, which quite frankly, if not fixed will suck up 15% of the rest of your life !!!! 😟

So here we go:

1) Double click on your HD icon.

2) Go to ‘File’ - ‘Get info’ (your Macintosh HD box will pop up on the left top of your computer ^ < .

3) At the bottom, click on ‘Sharing & Permissions’ arrow > .

4) A little box should open and tell you that “you have READ ONLY permission.

5) At the very bottom right, you will see a locked padlock.

6) Click once on the lock to open it. When you do, that dreaded “Finder.app wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this” note will come up for hopefully the very LAST time ever! Whoooohoooo.....!!!

7) Enter the same password that you have been required to do for the past 27 years!!! lol

8) When you click “OK” bottom right, the lock will open and you are “IN”....

9) Once you are “IN”, don’t be afraid!!! Smile... 🙂

10) Once the lock is open, you will see this ( + - * check sign ) at the bottom, now highlighted in black.

11) Click on the + and you will be given some choices.

12) Choose “administrators” - and then ‘select’.

13) You will be taken right back to the bottom, ‘read only, write only or read & write’?

14) For “administrators”, click on ‘Read & Write’. [for safety purposes, it may be best to leave all of your other choices as “read only” so no one else can mess with your HD?]

15) Once you have highlighted those permissions, re-click on your “padlock” which will lock, save and close your changes.

16) Your Sharing & Permissions tab should now say “you have custom access”?

17) Close your Mac HD info, try drag a dropping any doc you choose into your HD icon, and “viola”!!! You are now a MacHead and your life has improved by about 100% !!!

(Ok, maybe 15%, but still, doesn’t it feel good????) lol Remember, you can ALWAYS GO BACK and make changes here or reset it how it was, but in my experience, “If it ain’t broke......” Best of luck and Blessings on your computer journey.... 😉

I don't see where the "Go" command is

THANK YOU!!!!