Help with Permissions.

[Weaselboy]

Hi Just tried it and it said reboot at the end, so i have but i just have a blnak screen any ideas ?

You got the reboot prompt after clicking that permissions reset button? Did it seem to shut down then try to start back up?

Try a power down and restart.

 

[mattimoo]

Hi All so i tried all and it didn’t work :-(
I then just started to restore from the time machine all looked ok until this morning it had an error saying could not down load files please restart.

my questions in when i do a restore will the fact that i lock the permissions make any deferens or does it wipe that.


If it errors again I was just going to reinstall the OS would that just be as a new MAC ? I could then find iPhoto’s on the time machine and just restore them ?


any help would be great.

 

[Weaselboy]

Hi All so i tried all and it didn’t work :-(
I then just started to restore from the time machine all looked ok until this morning it had an error saying could not down load files please restart.

my questions in when i do a restore will the fact that i lock the permissions make any deferens or does it wipe that.


If it errors again I was just going to reinstall the OS would that just be as a new MAC ? I could then find iPhoto’s on the time machine and just restore them ?


any help would be great.

I don't get why the permissions fix did not work. So when you boot from a cold start now, what happens exactly?

To get a clean start and restore from Time Machine will fix it, but you want to pick a Time Machine restore point from before you did this for it to work... otherwise you will "restore" the error right back.

Do this. Plug in the TM external and option key boot, then select the TM disk to boot from. Start Disk Util and erase Macintosh HD. Quit Disk Util. Now click restore and you will get a screen with a list of dates representing backups sets. Pick the one you know is before you made this mistake and tell it to restore.

That should get your machine back exactly like it was.

 

[mattimoo]

Hi thanks for your fast reply.

when i boot from scratch i get the screen with
Restore from TM
reinstall OS X
Get help online
Disk Utility

i have chosen the TM last night and it couldn’t see it then realise it was because i had to put my Wi-Fi key in duu

this morning it had an error i have now set it off again.

I chose a date a few days before i made the stupid change!

if it errors again would you say I’m best to just Reinstall OSX and start from scratch I’m thinking i can grab the iPhoto’s folder from the TM ??

I don't get why the permissions fix did not work. So when you boot from a cold start now, what happens exactly?

To get a clean start and restore from Time Machine will fix it, but you want to pick a Time Machine restore point from before you did this for it to work... otherwise you will "restore" the error right back.

Do this. Plug in the TM external and option key boot, then select the TM disk to boot from. Start Disk Util and erase Macintosh HD. Quit Disk Util. Now click restore and you will get a screen with a list of dates representing backups sets. Pick the one you know is before you made this mistake and tell it to restore.

That should get your machine back exactly like it was.

 

[Weaselboy]

Hi thanks for your fast reply.

when i boot from scratch i get the screen with
Restore from TM
reinstall OS X
Get help online
Disk Utility

This is just plain boot with no option key or anything? That is the recovery screen you are describing, and it is not even trying to boot to the user login screen.

I suspect you did something more harmful that just changing permissions on your user account.

We should be able to get you back in business with TM.

i have chosen the TM last night and it couldn’t see it then realise it was because i had to put my Wi-Fi key in duu

this morning it had an error i have now set it off again.

I chose a date a few days before i made the stupid change!

if it errors again would you say I’m best to just Reinstall OSX and start from scratch I’m thinking i can grab the iPhoto’s folder from the TM ??

I'm not clear how you are trying to restore. Follow the step in my last post and boot from the TM disk to erase and then restore and you will not need to download anything at all. It sounds like you were trying to reinstall the OS over wifi and you don't need to do that.

If all this fails... yes, you can reinstall the OS then manually move things in from the TM backup by option clicking the TM icon in the menu bar and going to browse other backup disks.

You should be good with the erase and restore I described though.