Hi everyone, I'm having a major problem with my Powermac G5:
Long story short: I opened the "get info" pane on my HD and gave myself as user/admin READ/WITE ACCESS and applied to contents. Dumb. I thought it would make installs faster so it would not ask for my login everytime. Dumb
Now, I had my internal/syst drive partitioned in two, one was for the system and only system and the second partition was a general storage area. I also have 3 internals and some are partitioned for various uses.
So the permissions process took a while but when it was done IT LOCKED ALL OF THE DRIVES/PARTITIONS. When I checked "get info" on the partitions the access pane identified Me (user), system, admin and everyone as having CUSTOM PRIVILEGES. I unchecked the lock to make changes and ticked IGNORE OWNERSHIP, SHARED FOLDER and tried adjusting the "Custom" privilage drop down but it wont let me adjust to READ/WRITE.
Only my SYSTEM partition is running fine but the other one in that same drive is locked (along with the rest of them)
I tried using the disk utility (repair permissions) from both the computer and from the installation disk to no results. I used the "file salvage" app to take another look and it identified the locked partitions as being under ROOT privileges.
I am out of ideas and my media is locked in the partitions. Including backups. I was in the process of reinstalling everything on my mac to make it run smoother and hadn't run time machine yet. I hate to impose but does anyone have any suggestions?
Powermac G5 2x2.8 QuadCore running 10.5.1 (it was running 10.5.8 but I reinstalled to see if it would help)
Thanks again.
Long story short: I opened the "get info" pane on my HD and gave myself as user/admin READ/WITE ACCESS and applied to contents. Dumb. I thought it would make installs faster so it would not ask for my login everytime. Dumb
Now, I had my internal/syst drive partitioned in two, one was for the system and only system and the second partition was a general storage area. I also have 3 internals and some are partitioned for various uses.
So the permissions process took a while but when it was done IT LOCKED ALL OF THE DRIVES/PARTITIONS. When I checked "get info" on the partitions the access pane identified Me (user), system, admin and everyone as having CUSTOM PRIVILEGES. I unchecked the lock to make changes and ticked IGNORE OWNERSHIP, SHARED FOLDER and tried adjusting the "Custom" privilage drop down but it wont let me adjust to READ/WRITE.
Only my SYSTEM partition is running fine but the other one in that same drive is locked (along with the rest of them)
I tried using the disk utility (repair permissions) from both the computer and from the installation disk to no results. I used the "file salvage" app to take another look and it identified the locked partitions as being under ROOT privileges.
I am out of ideas and my media is locked in the partitions. Including backups. I was in the process of reinstalling everything on my mac to make it run smoother and hadn't run time machine yet. I hate to impose but does anyone have any suggestions?
Powermac G5 2x2.8 QuadCore running 10.5.1 (it was running 10.5.8 but I reinstalled to see if it would help)
Thanks again.