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I can't access an folder - you have unknown permissions

After the update to Mountain Lion, i can't access a folder insider my home-folder any more;


First I tried Apple+i ... you have unknown permissions ... nothing to unlock; nothing to change


... then i tried to repair the permissions; without luck.


Then i saw in the terminal (ls -l), that the group was different; although the owner was right.

I chown -R the folder to alex:staff; (also chmod -R 755)


now it's:


drwxrwxr-x@ 44 alex staff 1496 15 Okt 00:28 ALEXKERN <--- THIS IS THE FOLDER

drwxr-xr-x 752 alex staff 25568 15 Okt 00:07 Abbilden

drwxr-xr-x 5 alex staff 170 15 Nov 2011 Austausch

drwxrwxrwx 333 alex staff 11322 15 Okt 00:25 Behalten

drwxr-xr-x 15 alex staff 510 31 Aug 15:31 Benötigen

drwxrwxrwx 28 alex staff 952 9 Feb 2012 Benutzen

drwxr-xr-x 8 alex staff 272 8 Feb 2012 Comics

drwx------+ 169 alex staff 5746 17 Okt 21:09 Desktop

drwx------+ 14 alex staff 476 15 Okt 14:55 Documents

drwx------+ 55 alex staff 1870 17 Okt 16:13 Downloads

drwxr-xr-x@ 48 alex staff 1632 17 Okt 20:16 Downloads_J

(...)

all other folders are normal accessible



ls ALEXKERN gives me: ALEXKERN: Permission denied

sudo ls -l ALEXKERN works of course:


drwxr-xr-x 7 alex staff 238 23 Nov 2011 0 NEW WORLD ORDER

drwxr-xr-x 5 alex staff 170 7 Sep 13:32 1 Rechnungen

drwxr-xr-x+ 4 alex staff 136 14 Feb 2012 2 Fotos von Freunden

drwxr-xr-x 23 alex staff 782 9 Feb 2012 2 unsortierbare Fotos

(...)


Did i miss something?

???


:-) AK

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Oct 17, 2012 1:09 PM

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Posted on Oct 17, 2012 2:05 PM

Solved it finally!


After listing the folders ACLs with ls -el


drwxr-xr-x@ 42 alex staff 1428 17 Okt 22:33 ALEXKERN

0: group:workgroup deny list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,re adextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit

1: user:_spotlight inherited allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit


i saw the problem and deleted the ACLs with chmod -a# 0 filename (use two times because rule 1 moves up to 0)


:-) AK

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Oct 17, 2012 2:05 PM in response to atari82

Solved it finally!


After listing the folders ACLs with ls -el


drwxr-xr-x@ 42 alex staff 1428 17 Okt 22:33 ALEXKERN

0: group:workgroup deny list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,re adextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directory_inherit

1: user:_spotlight inherited allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit


i saw the problem and deleted the ACLs with chmod -a# 0 filename (use two times because rule 1 moves up to 0)


:-) AK

I can't access an folder - you have unknown permissions

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