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HELP HELP HELP !! SwapCop messed it up !!
Authored by: pagmac2001 on Apr 13, '02 08:49:38AM

On my ibook 600, I already had a 2Gb part with MacOs X and the rest of the disk allocated to my files and Macos 9. As I just had 128 Mb of RAM which makes the system a sluggish, I wanted to give a try to SwapCop (without really knowing that it would be that buggy).

So I moved the swap file from the system's one to the large one. Funny enough I really saw some performance improvements (maybe it was just me, but I felt the system's responsiveness was better). But then I wasn't able to delete or move any file contained in the disk where I put the swap file, as if it was owned by another user. Interesting, huh ??!!

So I moved it back to its original place using swapcop, but nothing changed.

So my question is simple. Is there any means to avoid reinstalling the whole system, which I've just done 2 weeks ago.

If anyone can help.

Pagmac2001



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HELP HELP HELP !! SwapCop messed it up !!
Authored by: Alex281 on Apr 13, '02 02:56:36PM
There are to things to try here: 1) Show info on the files partition and under priviledges check "ignore priviledges on this volume" then log out and in again. 2) If you are sure that there are onlyfiles and os9 files on this partition then open a terminal and type:
 sudo chown -R "shortname":staff /volumes/"yourpartition" 
where "shortname" is your short user name and "yourpartition" is the name of your partition in question, without the quotes of course. Then you will be prompted for your admin password. This changes the owner of all files on that partition to you, and the group to a group you belong to.

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HELP HELP HELP !! SwapCop messed it up !!
Authored by: pagmac2001 on Apr 13, '02 03:59:54PM

Thanx !!! It worked perfectly. For now at least because I just tested it and I may encounter further hidden problems later. But now at least I can modify my files normally.

Cheers



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HELP HELP HELP !! SwapCop messed it up !!
Authored by: pagmac2001 on Apr 13, '02 04:01:45PM

Thanx !!! It worked perfectly. For now at least because I just tested it and I may encounter further hidden problems later. But now at least I can modify my files normally.

Cheers



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Sorry for the double post
Authored by: pagmac2001 on Apr 13, '02 04:05:28PM

Still this dial-up connection bug which disconnected me.



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