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<blockquote data-quote="crisscross01" data-source="post: 1798267" data-attributes="member: 402270"><p>I finally gave upon my much discussed 17" MBP and have a (nearly) new iMac 27" i5 with High Sierra. The migration from most recent MBP TM back-up was fine. However I find myself once again infuriated by being told I do not have permission to do pretty simple things. I went through remembered rituals like using the Information panels, then delved further to creating a Root account, or a rather drastic suggestion of Terminal> csrutil disable.</p><p></p><p>All I actually want to do is have my files on the directory for the internal drive arranged in folders of my choice, though ideally some in no folders at all and not find I am constantly having to enter admin password and not have to bypass folders like "movies" (everything that moves being categorically banned and in English english called films) or happily start a Pages or rtf file only to be told I can't save it under its new name.</p><p></p><p>I seem to have 3 choices, or is there a better one?</p><p></p><p>1: put all files that are not already in a Folder on the Fusion Drive directory into a folder called 0, left open, and put up with frequent calls for admin password (eg to drag a normal folder to trash)</p><p>2: shove them all into the admin user directory and seeth past the idiotic but unremovable folders...and maybe still have to enter password, I really don't like this option so haven't tried it far. </p><p>3: use the Root account, confusingly called 'others' on start up, and risk doing something ghastly. 3a Terminal> csrutil disable, probably more dangerous still</p><p></p><p>The computer is at home and no-one else likely to use it apart from visiting family for browsing. </p><p></p><p>Thanks in advance, Chris</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crisscross01, post: 1798267, member: 402270"] I finally gave upon my much discussed 17" MBP and have a (nearly) new iMac 27" i5 with High Sierra. The migration from most recent MBP TM back-up was fine. However I find myself once again infuriated by being told I do not have permission to do pretty simple things. I went through remembered rituals like using the Information panels, then delved further to creating a Root account, or a rather drastic suggestion of Terminal> csrutil disable. All I actually want to do is have my files on the directory for the internal drive arranged in folders of my choice, though ideally some in no folders at all and not find I am constantly having to enter admin password and not have to bypass folders like "movies" (everything that moves being categorically banned and in English english called films) or happily start a Pages or rtf file only to be told I can't save it under its new name. I seem to have 3 choices, or is there a better one? 1: put all files that are not already in a Folder on the Fusion Drive directory into a folder called 0, left open, and put up with frequent calls for admin password (eg to drag a normal folder to trash) 2: shove them all into the admin user directory and seeth past the idiotic but unremovable folders...and maybe still have to enter password, I really don't like this option so haven't tried it far. 3: use the Root account, confusingly called 'others' on start up, and risk doing something ghastly. 3a Terminal> csrutil disable, probably more dangerous still The computer is at home and no-one else likely to use it apart from visiting family for browsing. Thanks in advance, Chris [/QUOTE]
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