My hard drive broke so I've been moving my files to a new one and the file permissions are messed up. I was looking for a command that edits the permissions of one folder and everything in said folder. I found two on another macforums thread (sudo chown -R User_name /Users/user_short_name and sudo chmod -R 777 /Users/user_short_name).
I tried the first one, and it asked for a password, and I tried to type but it wasn't appearing. I closed the window and tried the command again, and it didn't prompt me for a password. I checked if the permissions had changed, they didn't. I restarted and tried the commands again, neither prompted me of anything or changed the permissions.
I'm sorry if this isn't the correct spot.
EDIT:
I'm not the main administrator of this account although my account is an admin. When I restarted I went on the main admin account to type those commands and it didn't work. I'm not sure if I need to be on the account I'm targetting to make it work. I'm going to try that now.
I tried the first one, and it asked for a password, and I tried to type but it wasn't appearing. I closed the window and tried the command again, and it didn't prompt me for a password. I checked if the permissions had changed, they didn't. I restarted and tried the commands again, neither prompted me of anything or changed the permissions.
I'm sorry if this isn't the correct spot.
EDIT:
I'm not the main administrator of this account although my account is an admin. When I restarted I went on the main admin account to type those commands and it didn't work. I'm not sure if I need to be on the account I'm targetting to make it work. I'm going to try that now.