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Problems when I try to access to my desktop folder
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<blockquote data-quote="JohnLubotsky" data-source="post: 940211" data-attributes="member: 131010"><p>Hi emasso:</p><p></p><p>Hopefully your problem is long since fixed. If not, here's what I did for one of my clients that worked:</p><p></p><p>On a Macbook Pro running the current versions of OS X and iPhoto, one day my client was unable to open his Desktop folder, or rather it opened in iPhoto by default. To fix this- </p><p></p><p>1. Login as a different user with admin priviledges</p><p>2. From the Terminal:</p><p>sudo chown -R adminuser ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop</p><p>sudo mv ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktopweird</p><p>sudo mkdir ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop</p><p>sudo mv ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktopweird/* ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop/</p><p>sudo chown -R afficteduser ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop</p><p>3. Repair permissions (who knows if this was necessary, but it didn't hurt)</p><p></p><p>And voila.</p><p></p><p>This may well be too technical for you to do yourself if you're not Unix-savvy (and in fact, don't try it unless you understand what you're doing), but it will provide a roadmap for others to help you. Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnLubotsky, post: 940211, member: 131010"] Hi emasso: Hopefully your problem is long since fixed. If not, here's what I did for one of my clients that worked: On a Macbook Pro running the current versions of OS X and iPhoto, one day my client was unable to open his Desktop folder, or rather it opened in iPhoto by default. To fix this- 1. Login as a different user with admin priviledges 2. From the Terminal: sudo chown -R adminuser ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop sudo mv ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktopweird sudo mkdir ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop sudo mv ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktopweird/* ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop/ sudo chown -R afficteduser ~/Users/afflicteduser/Desktop 3. Repair permissions (who knows if this was necessary, but it didn't hurt) And voila. This may well be too technical for you to do yourself if you're not Unix-savvy (and in fact, don't try it unless you understand what you're doing), but it will provide a roadmap for others to help you. Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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