I had a problem migrating my Powerbook info to my new iMac. Since I wanted to migrate my documents, photos, music files and other media to the iMac's hard drive (and keeping the applications on the SSD), it made for a few complications.
I had already downloaded some big apps on the iMac (Logic Pro being the largest), and if I had had a little more sense, I would have migrated my Powerbook info before doing anything else. For anyone else who is waiting to migrate info, you might run into the same problems I did.
As you know, when you migrate info from one computer to another, you have to create a second user name for the files being migrated (call them S1--username for the iMac, and S2, username for the Powerbook. This makes for some headaches--you have to keep logging in from one username to the other. In any case, I finally transferred the files from S2 on the SSD to S1 on the HDD.
Then I noticed that I wasn't able to save any of the Logic music files I opened on the iMac--an error message popped up when I tried to save anything that said "You are not permissioned to alter file" or something along those lines.
I checked with Apple support, and after going through a few support reps and a couple of hours of calls, finally got someone who gave the answer, and it was really simple: If you need to permission yourself for a folder and all of its contents, click once on the folder, choose "File --> Get Info" then add yourself as the user under the "Sharing and Permissions" dropdown, granting yourself "Read and Write" access. You have to go one more step, and that is to click on the little gear dropdown at the bottom of the window and click "Apply to Enclosed Items".
This is probably second-nature to many of the users on this forum, but the fact that several Apple reps didn't know the answer made me feel that it might be info that some of you could use.
I had already downloaded some big apps on the iMac (Logic Pro being the largest), and if I had had a little more sense, I would have migrated my Powerbook info before doing anything else. For anyone else who is waiting to migrate info, you might run into the same problems I did.
As you know, when you migrate info from one computer to another, you have to create a second user name for the files being migrated (call them S1--username for the iMac, and S2, username for the Powerbook. This makes for some headaches--you have to keep logging in from one username to the other. In any case, I finally transferred the files from S2 on the SSD to S1 on the HDD.
Then I noticed that I wasn't able to save any of the Logic music files I opened on the iMac--an error message popped up when I tried to save anything that said "You are not permissioned to alter file" or something along those lines.
I checked with Apple support, and after going through a few support reps and a couple of hours of calls, finally got someone who gave the answer, and it was really simple: If you need to permission yourself for a folder and all of its contents, click once on the folder, choose "File --> Get Info" then add yourself as the user under the "Sharing and Permissions" dropdown, granting yourself "Read and Write" access. You have to go one more step, and that is to click on the little gear dropdown at the bottom of the window and click "Apply to Enclosed Items".
This is probably second-nature to many of the users on this forum, but the fact that several Apple reps didn't know the answer made me feel that it might be info that some of you could use.