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Q: Home Folder greyed out/Can't access home folder

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I'm completely unable to view my home folder after a fresh install of mountain lion.  I copied my user folder over and created a new user based on that folder.  As you can see it will only show me the large home icon instead of my column view.  It is able to be accessed from other views however... it's not consistent.  There seems to be a huge finder issue with this user.  I've also made a test user and everything over there works fine so it's only on this side.

 

Here is what it looks like from the other user:

 

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Still greyed out... I've tried everything from help from genii at the store to friends who know UNIX well, I've reset ACLs and repaired permissions ot no avail.  If you have any ideas for me please lemme know and I'll try them.

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 29, 2012 3:16 PM

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  • by plasmonyc,

    plasmonyc plasmonyc Sep 28, 2014 5:20 AM in response to shgaki
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    Sep 28, 2014 5:20 AM in response to shgaki

    Give me some love click "like" n my post

  • by Bradley Dichter,

    Bradley Dichter Bradley Dichter Nov 12, 2014 4:40 PM in response to plasmonyc
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    Nov 12, 2014 4:40 PM in response to plasmonyc

    Is should be stated that the command to type in Terminal is SetFile -d and then a space and then today's date and then the path to the problem home folder so a space and then /Users/ and then the short name/accountname of the home folder with the messed up date. I never noticed that the problem home folder had a creation date and modification date of January 24, 1984. So it's not possible or highly unlikely and I guess Yosemite figures there is a problem. Too bad other utilities like Disk Utility can't fix this.

  • by Daniel GL,

    Daniel GL Daniel GL Jan 2, 2016 3:24 AM in response to plasmonyc
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    Jan 2, 2016 3:24 AM in response to plasmonyc

    This helped me as well - just to say you have to install Xcode first so if you don't first run the following from terminal:

    xcode-select --install

     

    and then

     

    SetFile -d 06/13/2011 ~

     

    or with a different date if you like

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