Oct 14, '03 10:05:00AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
A bit of frantic Unix research on a local Mac bulletin board followed (Revelation BBS, in Vancouver BC), where I found a tip contributed by Derek M. Warren, who came up with the following. This has (apparently) worked to restore full usability to my entire "Home" folder and files. In the Terminal app, type:
% sudo su % chown -R myname /Users/mynameThe first line gives you root level access; the second line restores the correct ownership of the home folder. Replace myname with your actual short username, of course.
This seemed to work okay (fingers crossed!)
[robg adds: Some things to keep in mind -- Carbon Copy Cloner will create backups with permissions intact, and you might also be able to recover from something like this by running Apple's Restore Permissions (in Disk Utility), though I'm not sure it looks at ownership of the Users folder.]
