access privileges issue

WEll, being powerful, it can be dangerous, but once downloaded & running, drag that Folder to it's icon, look at the priv settings there.

Hmmm, not sure, can't check my iMac until later, but I think it may be the Group that is the problem.

I saw the image jack posted last night, and too noticed nothing in Group.

The ownership permissions on my ~/Music/iTunes folder are

Owner Group everyone

me staff

rwx r-x r-x

(a 755 in triplet).

Also, the second thing to note is the group name is called wheel where as you would expect staff. This must have changed when the folder was dragged from the old account to his present one?? or perhaps there was some meddlin' before that?

I think group should be changed back to staff, as well given r-x permissions.

But one other thing, if you go back and look at his HD permissions, you'll see the group is called Admin. and system is in there as well. Perhaps by incorrectly moving the iTunes folder, and whatever else, some of the other users of this computer have tried to use root to force changes, through their inexperience of how to do it normally.

I think you have it, Staff for group here also.

The group setting looks good, just one small change,make the last set , Everyone to have the same permissions as staff R - X ( ie untick the middle W)

and blast off !

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illustration., Everyone like thiis.

The procedure below will reset the permissions of a home folder in OS X 10.7.4 or later. If you're running an earlier version of 10.7, update to the latest version first. This procedure should not be used in OS X versions older than 10.7.4.

Back up all data before you begin.

Step 1

Click the Finder icon in the Dock. A Finder window will open.

Step 2

Press the following key combinations, in the order given:

The Info window of your home folder will open.

Step 3

Click the lock icon in the lower right corner and authenticate with the name and login password of an administrator on the system. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.

Step 4

In the Sharing & Permissions section of the window, verify that you have "Read & Write" privileges. If not, use the "+" and "-" buttons in the lower left corner to make the necessary changes.

Step 5

By default, the groups "staff" and "everyone" have "Read Only" privileges. With those settings, the files at the top level of your home folder will be readable by other local users. You can change the privileges to "No Access" if you wish, but then your Public and Drop Box folders will be inaccessible to others, and Personal Web Sharing won't work. Most likely, you don't need to change these settings.

Step 6

If there are entries in the Sharing & Permissions list for users or groups besides "me," "staff," and "everyone," delete them.

Step 7

Click the gear icon at the bottom of the Info window and select Apply to enclosed items... from the drop-down menu. Confirm. The operation may take several minutes to complete. When it does, close the Info window.

Hmmm, I wonder if there's an ACL for you saying no Rights?

I wonder if Clear ACLs would help?

Oh, did you reboot after the changes?

How disappointing!

Let's go back.

If you insert an Audio CD, does iTunes open up?

Then at the bottom there is Import CD* and so clicking on it it starts copying into iTunes?

If you are doing it in another way, could you describe, the process you are doing when you get this access error?

*I'm using iTunes9