If I drag an image from my browser to my desktop and later try to delete it, a notice comes up which reads, "The finder wants to make changes" and then asks for my password.
This is very annoying and is new. Whats up?
Thanks.
Jeff
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, provide ~/.Trash as the path, choose Get Info from the File menu, give yourself Read and Write access to it, and unlock it.
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Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, provide ~/.Trash as the path, choose Get Info from the File menu, give yourself Read and Write access to it, and unlock it.
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Just tried that and it states trash can't be opened because I don't have the permission to see it's contents.
Why wouldn't I jave permission to see it's contents? I'm the admin.
Any idea how this might've gotten started?
Does it have anything to do with changing the name of the HD?
Open the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and run the following:
do shell script "chown " & (do shell script "echo $UID") & " ~/.Trash" with administrator privileges
do shell script "chmod u+rwx ~/.Trash"
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sorry but that looks like two scripts. Run the first and then the other?
I'd really like to know why this started happening in the first place. Thanks. Something I did or is it from recent upgrade?
They're different lines of a single script.
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I don't doubt tthat your script solution would have worked I still called AppleCare.
It was obviously a permissions issue. Their solution was to restart with Command and R keys held to start up in recovery mode which led to a window with 4 options in it available to me.
On the list was Disk Utility. I had tried Disk Utility before even posting here in Discussions. Remember this is now Recovery Mode Disk Utility.
I verified first and found two permissions out of whack. I ran Repair and then restarted and the problem was gone.
Regular Repair Permissions didn't do it.
Thanks for your help/
Yeah, I was going to say that. The trash permissions being off is a really bad sign and warrants a permissions repair in Disk Utility. You don't even need to boot into the recovery partition to do that.
I thought that as well but repairing disk permissions w/out going to recovery didn't work. Not this time.I tried it.
That's strange. It should do the same thing... Anyway, glad you got it working.
I had this same problem. I tried everything from Repair Permissions (several times), to rebooting in several different modes, to reinstalling System 10.7.5. Nothing worked. Then I found your post, copied and pasted your script into AppleScript Editor, ran it, and it solved the problem. Thanks, Niel.
Like jeffT, I would like to know why this problem suddenly turned up on its own. I'm too technologically challenged to make it happen myself. Thanks again...
I am having the same issue. I installed Minecraft on my MacBook Pro and have had all kinds of issues. I took it to the Apple store and they took care of it. I installed Minecraft again and am having different issues.
Not sure if any of you installed Minecraft. I never had any issues until I installed it!
Niel - Your Apple Script did the trick. Thanks! - BJ
Neil,
just found your post on how to keep the "finder wants to make changes.type your pass to allow" box from coming up.
i know typing the wront code in the terminal can cause big issues and i'm not that savey when it comes to code. not sure if this is the case here?
what exactly am i typing in the appscript editor?
am i typing: "chown " with quotes and hitting run?
and then "echo $UID" hit run?
and then "chmod u+rwx ~/.Trash"
my trash folder already has admin priv.
thanks for your time
owen
Copy and paste this (exaclty as it is):
do shell script "chown " & (do shell script "echo $UID") & " ~/.Trash" with administrator privileges
do shell script "chmod u+rwx ~/.Trash"
And hit Run. Should sort it.
"Finder wants to make changes" Why is password required to delete a file?
