G'day,
PowerMac G5 dual 1.8GHz running 10.5.8..
I was experiencing a frustrating issue whereby upon opening iTunes, it would say I had insufficient privileges. It wasn't an issue til I got an iPhone, and then it wouldn't let me authorise it.
So I got Info on my entire hard drive, and told it to recursively change all files' permissions to read&write access for my admin account. (I'm the only user of this computer... yet there's my user (admin) account, a system account, an "admin" account, and "everyone" account)
This nearly froze the computer, but then seemed ok... til I restarted... and then the computer would not boot - stayed on a grey screen.
I booted with my Leopard disk, and ran Disk Utility. It found an error it could not repair... (I googled and it was considered a serious problem... suggested Disk Warrior to fix it, but DW didn't see a problem)
I tried reinstalling Mac OS 10.5... but at the end, it errorred, saying it couldn't read the old User info...
I tried again... and it worked.
BUT
My 2nd internal HDD now has a padlock on it... as does an external HDD that I use regularly... so I cannot access them as I do not have sufficient privileges...
AARRGGHHH!!
How do I fix this? What is causing it? Why does Apple hate me?
Thanks
cosmic
PS Oh - title should be "Privileges" not Permissions... doh
PowerMac G5 dual 1.8GHz running 10.5.8..
I was experiencing a frustrating issue whereby upon opening iTunes, it would say I had insufficient privileges. It wasn't an issue til I got an iPhone, and then it wouldn't let me authorise it.
So I got Info on my entire hard drive, and told it to recursively change all files' permissions to read&write access for my admin account. (I'm the only user of this computer... yet there's my user (admin) account, a system account, an "admin" account, and "everyone" account)
This nearly froze the computer, but then seemed ok... til I restarted... and then the computer would not boot - stayed on a grey screen.
I booted with my Leopard disk, and ran Disk Utility. It found an error it could not repair... (I googled and it was considered a serious problem... suggested Disk Warrior to fix it, but DW didn't see a problem)
I tried reinstalling Mac OS 10.5... but at the end, it errorred, saying it couldn't read the old User info...
I tried again... and it worked.
BUT
My 2nd internal HDD now has a padlock on it... as does an external HDD that I use regularly... so I cannot access them as I do not have sufficient privileges...
AARRGGHHH!!
How do I fix this? What is causing it? Why does Apple hate me?
Thanks
cosmic
PS Oh - title should be "Privileges" not Permissions... doh
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