First of all, my native language is Swedish, so I may or may not use the right terminology.
I'm brand new to Mac. Bought me an iMac 24 ". Big sur 11.4. (Using iPad and iPhone since 2011).
Sat and moved files from an external hard drive and opened "info" (about? get info?) by right clicking the folders on the mac. Then I saw that for the folder with my account name (the one with the picture of a house (home folder?)) had several different groups with different permissions. (Me, staff, and everybody, I think). I’m not used to this. Thought “staff” was some kind of remote permission, witch a don’t want. Experimenting what happened to my own permission if I removed the group "staff" from this list, and my own privileges went from "you can read and write" to "you have custom privileges". I don’t know if it did any difference. And "staff" remains as an permission group in the subfolders (and that is weird, isn’t it? I mean, if I restrict a folder, shouldn’t the subfolders get the same restrictions as well?)
What did I do?
Can I restore my home folder so "staff" is included among the permissions? Does it matter? Who are included in ”staff”? Who are “everybody”? And when I google, I found an another group named “wheel”. What is that?
Had not made any Time Machine backup when I fiddled with this.
I can’t go back by pressing the three little dots (I think it looked something like that), because the revert alternative is grayed out. Even if I unlock the padlock.
I'm brand new to Mac. Bought me an iMac 24 ". Big sur 11.4. (Using iPad and iPhone since 2011).
Sat and moved files from an external hard drive and opened "info" (about? get info?) by right clicking the folders on the mac. Then I saw that for the folder with my account name (the one with the picture of a house (home folder?)) had several different groups with different permissions. (Me, staff, and everybody, I think). I’m not used to this. Thought “staff” was some kind of remote permission, witch a don’t want. Experimenting what happened to my own permission if I removed the group "staff" from this list, and my own privileges went from "you can read and write" to "you have custom privileges". I don’t know if it did any difference. And "staff" remains as an permission group in the subfolders (and that is weird, isn’t it? I mean, if I restrict a folder, shouldn’t the subfolders get the same restrictions as well?)
What did I do?
Can I restore my home folder so "staff" is included among the permissions? Does it matter? Who are included in ”staff”? Who are “everybody”? And when I google, I found an another group named “wheel”. What is that?
Had not made any Time Machine backup when I fiddled with this.
I can’t go back by pressing the three little dots (I think it looked something like that), because the revert alternative is grayed out. Even if I unlock the padlock.
