"Sufficient Access Privileges"

[chadwik147]

I have a white iMac from 2006, i was starting to have a lot of trouble with it, like many, when i upgraded to leopard. Finally after six months or so, i decided enough was enough and downgraded to Tiger through archive and install.

They put my files like pictures and music into a folder, named "Previous System". However those files are locked and pop a message stating that I do not have "Sufficient Access Privileges"

Anyone know of a solution or way around this.

Thanks in advance.

 

[TXbug]

Open a terminal session and cd to the folder "Previous System". You want to change the permissions of the files in that folder. First use the ls -l command to see the owner, group and file permissions. If it lists you as the owner and your default group as the group, then

chmod 644 *

If you are not the owner and your group is not the group listed, then either su to root and

chown username.group *
chmod 644 *

or

sudo chown username.group *
chmod 644 *

where username is your short name and group is your default group name.

Now you should be able to access your files.