Change ownership of all files owned by "502" to me?

[camfrye]

I'm putting the pieces back together after a HDD crash and subsequent Time Machine restore and might have gotten things a bit messier than they need to be.

I created a user called "restore", for the sole purpose of restoring from Time Machine. I then created a new user called camf to use as the main login.

I have some scripts that run fairly regularly and console shows that they have been unable to run - "permission denied".

I checked the permissions of the files in question, and sure enough they were owned by "restore". I figured deleting the restore account would revert ownership back to me/camf (the only other administrator). That didn't happen, the files are now owned by 502.

e.g.:

drwxr-xr-x 8 502 staff 272 28 May 17:18 biz
drwxr-xr-x@ 9 502 staff 306 25 Mar 22:14 random
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 502 staff 170 1 Nov 2007 iPhoto
drwxr-xr-x 3 camf staff 102 17 Aug 22:32 temp
drwxr-xr-x 2 camf staff 68 24 Aug 10:01 xfolder


My question:

Is there a way to globally (across all drives, or even drive by drive) change all files owned by 502 to camf

FWIW, I'm running 10.6.4

Any help would be appreciated.

Best,
Cam

 

[ToastyX]

Open Terminal and enter this: sudo find / -user 502 -exec chown camf {} \;

Then enter your password. This will take a while since it has to check the permissions of every file. If you have any drives mounted, it should affect those too.

 

[camfrye]

That did the trick! Thanks, ToastyX!