Why is Mountain Lion asking for my password to delete files?

Hey baltwo, I have tried all the suggested ideas in this discussion chain, and I am still getting asked for password. Also, when I do put my password in, it does not even put it in the trash - it bypass's the trash and deletes forever. Any ideas? Thanks!!!!

See http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html

This should fix the .Trash issue WRT authenticating:

sudo chown -R username:staff .Trash

Substituting your actual username.

Thank you for your response, I followed the command and it said "chown: S: illegal user name"

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

It is working now! Thanks!!!

Glad you figured it out!

"Choose your Home folder "Get Info" (command-i) and be sure you have "read & write" in the Sharing & Permissions section." - THANK YOU macjack, a thousand times!

For two months, since upgrading to OS 10.8, I've been unable to move items to the trash. With each try, I would get the Finder message "Are you sure you want to delete "document name"? The item would be deleted when I clicked the "Delete" radio button on that message box, but nothing would ever just move to the trash can.

I'd gone through Repair permissions in Disk Utility a dozen times, and done a number of Terminal commands, but nothing had worked. Correcting the Permissions for the Home folder (the simplest solution!) was the answer. Thank you again, so very much.

So for me I am unable to move anything to the Trash without Finder asking for my password and just automatically deleting it. I went through and changed every permission on the top folders (ex. Home, Downloads, Documents, etc.) to Read& Write, and I have performed the Disk Utility of repairing permissions, and yet still nothing has changed. Does anyone have any advice that could help me get my Macbook Pro acting like it used to, before I upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, when I would click move to trash and it would it go to the trash (not delete) as well as not require a password? It would be greatly appreciated!

This also worked for me but rather than a restart, I had to do a cold boot. Thanks very much.

Dave

Thanks for the feedback. I'll add the shutdown and reboot to my TS file.

Hi baltwo,

This is happening to me to. When I try to move, rename, delete folders or files, it asks me for a password. It seems to happen with all files on an external drive.

Can you help me fix it?

If it helps, when I try to Get Info for any folders, it doesn't show my admin user - it says 'fetching' and says I can only 'read' 😟
Thanks!

This totally worked for me. Thanks so much for sharing. I was getting ready to reinstall.

Select the HD's Desktop icon, CMD+I. and click Ignore ownership on this volume.

Pardon my ignorance, but I don't see that on the "Info" section. I tried applying the permissions to "all enclosed items" and it's been doing that for about ten minutes now. I don't see the Ignore ownership item though!

Interesting. I just selected my ML test volume and get this:

It's been 'applying the permissions' for like 3 hours now. This is clearly wrong.

This is what I get with command+I:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/87937490@N08/8042587628/

Any ideas?
Thanks again!