im locked out of my music folder, I did not change my permission. please help!!!!
the error is "The folder “Music” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents. "
the permission box in info says "you have unkown access. "
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)
Please run this command in Terminal (copy the whole line and paste into Terminal, then hit return) and post the results. If you want, you can paste into a text editor first and remove your user name. Just replace it with "username" or something like that.
ls -aleO@ ~/It will list all of the folders in your home and the permissions set on them.
That will help determine if we need to do a full scale reset or just fix the Music folder.
Please run this command in Terminal (copy the whole line and paste into Terminal, then hit return) and post the results. If you want, you can paste into a text editor first and remove your user name. Just replace it with "username" or something like that.
ls -aleO@ ~/It will list all of the folders in your home and the permissions set on them.
That will help determine if we need to do a full scale reset or just fix the Music folder.
Last login: Sat Jan 26 14:43:48 on ttys000
Last login: Mon Jan 28 13:59:05 on console
server:~ aaronhertrich$ ls -aleO@ ~/
total 72
drwxr-xr-x+ 29 aaronhertrich staff - 986 28 Jan 18:20 .
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x+ 9 root admin - 306 28 Jan 11:59 ..
0: user:_spotlight allow list,search,file_inherit,directory_inherit,only_inherit
-rw------- 1 aaronhertrich staff compressed 3 25 Aug 15:13 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rw-r--r--@ 1 aaronhertrich staff - 21508 28 Jan 19:57 .DS_Store
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
drwx------ 87 aaronhertrich staff - 2958 28 Jan 20:18 .Trash
-rw------- 1 aaronhertrich staff - 0 25 Aug 22:15 .Xauthority
-rw------- 1 aaronhertrich staff - 384 26 Jan 14:47 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 3 aaronhertrich staff - 102 23 Jan 18:39 .cache
drwx------ 3 aaronhertrich staff - 102 3 Oct 20:38 .cups
drwx------ 14 aaronhertrich staff - 476 11 Oct 21:19 .dropbox
drwxr-xr-x 3 aaronhertrich staff - 102 25 Aug 22:15 .fontconfig
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaronhertrich staff - 625 26 Jan 00:09 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaronhertrich staff - 241 25 Jan 19:26 .profile.macports-saved_2013-01-26_at_00:09:10
drwxr-xr-x 3 aaronhertrich staff - 102 18 Dec 14:12 Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
drwxr-xr-x 5 aaronhertrich staff - 170 25 Jan 20:25 Applications
drwxr-xr-x@ 5 aaronhertrich staff - 170 25 Jan 20:30 Applications (Parallels)
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
drwx------@ 15 aaronhertrich staff - 510 28 Jan 20:18 Desktop
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
0: group:com.apple.sharepoint.group.2 allow search
1: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 26 aaronhertrich staff - 884 28 Jan 12:50 Documents
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx---rwx+ 119 aaronhertrich staff - 4046 28 Jan 19:57 Downloads
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@ 15 aaronhertrich staff - 510 11 Oct 21:14 Dropbox
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaronhertrich staff - 0 25 Jan 17:52 DumpLog 13-01-25 17:52
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaronhertrich staff - 0 25 Jan 17:56 DumpLog 13-01-25 17:56
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaronhertrich staff - 0 25 Jan 18:07 DumpLog 13-01-25 18:07
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 aaronhertrich staff - 204 11 Oct 21:14 Google Drive
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
drwx------@ 60 aaronhertrich staff hidden 2040 26 Jan 19:41 Library
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxrwxrwx+ 37 aaronhertrich staff - 1258 28 Jan 19:57 Movies
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx---r-x+ 4 aaronhertrich staff - 136 28 Jan 20:16 Music
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------+ 10 aaronhertrich staff - 340 12 Dec 08:08 Pictures
0: group:everyone deny delete
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 aaronhertrich staff - 170 25 Aug 15:13 Public
0: group:everyone deny delete
server:~ aaronhertrich$
I'm not sure why you are locked out of Music, but you can change it to default with this:
chmod 700 ~/Music
Your Movies folder is also set to be accessable to all. Again, this will fix it if that is not what you want:
chmod 700 ~/Movies
You've also got an ACL set for Spotlight to access the /Users folder. I'm not sure why.
Again, I don't know that any of that would prevent you from doing anything in those fodlers.
it did not fix it. the movies is accessable to all so i can access it though my server. and the spot light i have not a clue. i opened spot light, it says indexing aaron's macbook pro
That might have been put there by Spotlight while it indexes.
I don't see any reason you would not have access to that folder. Everything there says you are the owner and have read, write, and execute permissions.
Have you restarted and logged back in?
Not the issue at hand, but If you log into your Macbook Pro from the Server using your Macbook Pro login credentials, you should be able to access everything on your Macbook Pro just as if you were logged into it. No need for the other permissions.
yes i have restarted.
You can try Resetting Home folder Permissions.
Just follow the steps for Lion as it is the same for Mountain Lion.
so i try to rest and i got this
Last login: Tue Jan 29 18:24:53 on ttys000
server:~ aaronhertrich$ chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~
chflags: /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/Music: Permission denied
server:~ aaronhertrich$
That's an additional Music folder you created on your Desktop. Likely is the reason everything looks correct, but you don't have permission.
What is the result of this command?
ls -aleO@ /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/MusicThese should fix it:
sudo chown aaronhertrich:staff /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/Music
chmod 700 /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/MusicThe sudo command will run chown (change owner) with elevated privileges. It will ask for your admin password. When you type it out, you won't see anything on the screen. Just type the password when requested and hit return.
Last login: Tue Jan 29 18:45:16 on ttys000
server:~ aaronhertrich$ sudo chown aaronhertrich:staff /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/Music
sudo: unable to cache user root, already exists
server:~ aaronhertrich$ chmod 700 /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/Music
I don't understand the error with sudo. I'm confused though that it allowed you to change the mode if it couldn't change the owner back to you. What does the list command show, now?
Last login: Tue Jan 29 19:08:22 on ttys000
server:~ aaronhertrich$ ls -aleO@ /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/Music
ls: /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/Music: Permission denied
server:~ aaronhertrich$
I think I may now understand the response from sudo.
Can you run ls with sudo?
sudo ls -aleO /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/MusicLast login: Tue Jan 29 19:42:36 on ttys000
server:~ aaronhertrich$ sudo ls -aleO /Users/aaronhertrich/Desktop/Music
sudo: unable to cache user root, already exists
server:~ aaronhertrich$
Hello,
Here is a simple way to ensure default permissions to be restored on home folders :
Hope this can help.
Im locked out of my music folder.
