It says I don't have enough access privileges to write to my music folder, yet I'm the admin and the music folder says I can read and write. Here's the things I've tried:
At first I thought it was an itunes problem so I re-installed itunes to no avail. Then I tried repairing permissions, no dice. Then, I was sure it was a permissions problem when I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, because it said I had "custom access" and there was an unknown user listed along with me (the admin) and "everyone." So after searching on this forum and the apple support forum, I tried using these commands in the terminal:
To set the owner and group correctly use the following command:
sudo chown -R yourshortusername:staff ~<enter>
Now type your administrator password. (and if needed confirm that you know what you are doing)
This will remove the write permission for everyone except you.
sudo chmod -R go-w ~<enter>
This might "break" your Drop box in Public. This will fix it again (it means set read and write for you, and write only for others)
sudo chmod -R 733 ~/Public/Drop\ Box<enter>
To remove ALL ACLs from your homedir, use:
chmod -R -N ~
When using the last command, I got the message "chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file controlsocket: Invalid argument," but it cleared up the "custom access" issue and got rid of the "unknown" user. So now my music folder says I can read and write, but when I hook my ipod up, itunes continues to give me the message that I don't have enough access privileges to write to the music folder.
Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
UPDATE: I checked my home directory and it still says I have "custom access" and then below it shows me (the admin) with read and write access. How do I get it to say "you have read and write access?"
UPDATE 2X: I found that the Users folder had custom access, so I set this to read and write for me and now my home directory says read and write, but I still have the problem with my ipod... this is really frustrating
At first I thought it was an itunes problem so I re-installed itunes to no avail. Then I tried repairing permissions, no dice. Then, I was sure it was a permissions problem when I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, because it said I had "custom access" and there was an unknown user listed along with me (the admin) and "everyone." So after searching on this forum and the apple support forum, I tried using these commands in the terminal:
To set the owner and group correctly use the following command:
sudo chown -R yourshortusername:staff ~<enter>
Now type your administrator password. (and if needed confirm that you know what you are doing)
This will remove the write permission for everyone except you.
sudo chmod -R go-w ~<enter>
This might "break" your Drop box in Public. This will fix it again (it means set read and write for you, and write only for others)
sudo chmod -R 733 ~/Public/Drop\ Box<enter>
To remove ALL ACLs from your homedir, use:
chmod -R -N ~
When using the last command, I got the message "chmod: Failed to clear ACL on file controlsocket: Invalid argument," but it cleared up the "custom access" issue and got rid of the "unknown" user. So now my music folder says I can read and write, but when I hook my ipod up, itunes continues to give me the message that I don't have enough access privileges to write to the music folder.
Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
UPDATE: I checked my home directory and it still says I have "custom access" and then below it shows me (the admin) with read and write access. How do I get it to say "you have read and write access?"
UPDATE 2X: I found that the Users folder had custom access, so I set this to read and write for me and now my home directory says read and write, but I still have the problem with my ipod... this is really frustrating