I've recently had a new HD to replace a failing one. Now running OS 10.9.5, previously 10.7.5
I have successfully restored my files fine from a Time Machine backup, but now my pages documents are locked and permission denied to save new version. Alert message says I do not have privileges, but I am the administrator and have read and write permissions.
I have repaired disk permissions using Disk utility
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
You may need to rebuild permissions on your user account. To do this,boot to your Recovery partition (holding down the Command and R keys while booting) and open Terminal from the Utilities menu. In Terminal, type: ‘resetpassword’ (without the ’s), hit return, and select the admin user. You are not going to reset your password. Click on the icon for your Macs hard drive at the top. From the drop down below it select the user account which is having issues. At the bottom of the window, you'll see an area labeled Restore Home Directory Permissions and ACLs. Click the reset button there. The process takes a few minutes. When complete, restart.
If that doesn't work.
User File Ownership - Reset see post by Linc Davis
Thanks Eric, I'm trying this, however I'm wondering how long this process takes, it seems to be taking a very long time?
I have followed your instructions, I have the choice of user account, me (my name) and also system administrator which is also me. I've chosen my name and hit the reset button as instructed and now I have a greyed out "Done" button and nothing else seems to be happening at all. Should I also try reset on system administrator? When you say it takes a few minutes is that 10 mins or half an hour??
Jean
You are welcome. In my experience, 10 minutes is usually more than enough, but the time is affected by the number of files you have. You should try this on the account where the files were locked.
Hi, I've tried what you have suggested a couple of times but to no avail. Is there anything else I can try?
Did you try the post by Linc Davis that I posted previously?
HI there, yes I did try what Linc suggested, I copied the line in part 1 of his link, opened Terminal, pasted the line, hit return, nothing happens... no request to type login password, and I had already tried part 2 of his post.
Pages permissions problem
