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WHAT? Cannot write to applications folder?
- Thread starter Mindflux
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My username is an administrator.
I authenticated (with my user password) and I can write to applications then.
I tried to modify the permissions for the applications directory, but finder beachballs and restarts. There are two 'unknown' users listed.
The user "system" and the group "admin" are missing from the Applications folder permissions. I'm not sure how that happened?
Right, but I fixed it. I had to chown the directory back to root:admin and set the permissions to 776.
Wonder how the heck that happened.
suraj
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I'm having the exact same issue. Did repairing permissions solve the problem for you? Disk Utility has been stuck verifying permissions for a while now.
suraj
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choreo
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I have been researching this Unknown User thing in Leopard all weekend. From what I can tell it stems from MIGRATING to Leopard. The Migration process changes your primary User ID from 501 to usually 502. Therefore Disk Utility does not see a problem - YOU are just no longer in possession of the 501 master account - nobody is.
I have tried several of the suggested "fixes" on the Apple forums (using Terminal etc.) and they have either failed in my case or worked until a restart. I think this is wreaking havoc underneath with several processes.
This is a known issue and Apple needs to issue a fix - would probably take a standalone utility? There is no excuse for someone who has gone to the time and expense of maintaining pristine backups not being able to successfully migrate their system. They might as well just come out and say "The only way to run Leopard is to reinstall EVERYTHING from scratch". That would have kept me from buying it right there. In other words, their Migration Assistant is worthless IMO. Lots of uses have this Unknown User all through their systems and just don't know it yet.
I have tried several of the suggested "fixes" on the Apple forums (using Terminal etc.) and they have either failed in my case or worked until a restart. I think this is wreaking havoc underneath with several processes.
This is a known issue and Apple needs to issue a fix - would probably take a standalone utility? There is no excuse for someone who has gone to the time and expense of maintaining pristine backups not being able to successfully migrate their system. They might as well just come out and say "The only way to run Leopard is to reinstall EVERYTHING from scratch". That would have kept me from buying it right there. In other words, their Migration Assistant is worthless IMO. Lots of uses have this Unknown User all through their systems and just don't know it yet.
Related issue?
I wonder whether this is related to the issue I'm having?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/431819/
I wonder whether this is related to the issue I'm having?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/431819/