Today, I tried to move a picture from my Downloads folder to my Pictures folder and suddenly I got, "The folder "Pictures" can't be opened because you don't have permission to see its contents."
So I started reading up on this. My Desktop, Documents, Movies, Music and Pictures folders all suddenly had the red circle with the white line on them. I did Command I on the Pictures folder and saw that my nickname followed by "(me)" (the name of the folder that has these now-locked sub folders) had Read and Write privileges. The only way I could get into the folder was to unlock the Get Info pane and add my admin with read and write privileges. My other folders, like Download, Applications, don't need admin; they all have just me and "everyone" (everyone has "No Access").
What the heck happened? Should I need to be doing this?
Wait. Now I just tried going to Movies and changing the (me) privilege from Read and Write to Read and back again and that fixed it. Huh?
This has never happened before. Any ideas why this happened?
iMac 2017, 10.13.4
So I started reading up on this. My Desktop, Documents, Movies, Music and Pictures folders all suddenly had the red circle with the white line on them. I did Command I on the Pictures folder and saw that my nickname followed by "(me)" (the name of the folder that has these now-locked sub folders) had Read and Write privileges. The only way I could get into the folder was to unlock the Get Info pane and add my admin with read and write privileges. My other folders, like Download, Applications, don't need admin; they all have just me and "everyone" (everyone has "No Access").
What the heck happened? Should I need to be doing this?
Wait. Now I just tried going to Movies and changing the (me) privilege from Read and Write to Read and back again and that fixed it. Huh?
This has never happened before. Any ideas why this happened?
iMac 2017, 10.13.4
