Permission problems after restoring from recovery

[soho]

My HD gave a 'no entry' sign on boot up and after trying all sorts of fixes I could not resolve it without using Disk Warrior...which I have to say did a stella job of recovering everything. It created a 'preview disk' but could not repair the directory. It did however mount the preview disk on my desktop and I was able to clone it to another drive using CCC, sadly it would not boot...but I expected that. Once I had a clone I installed a fresh copy of 10.6.7 on another drive and Migrated everything in. All looked good until I logged into my User account and realised all the folders were locked, so I get info on the User folder and changed permissions to 'me' read/write and apply to all enclosing items...all my files were then available. But...I have serious problems with some apps having permission problems. For example Photoshop can't write a pref file on quit, Outlook gives an error 'You do not have permissions to access the Outlook application folder...', If I create a new User and then launch Outlook it works fine. Dreamweaver won't launch at all and more.

So my question is...is there a way to reset the permissions and solve these issues?

The thought of reinstalling everything is just too much to consider at the moment so any help greatly appreciated.

Before anyone goes off on a backup lesson...I stupidly erased my backup to make room for 4 colleagues backups who were travelling to USA last week...I then forgot to reinitialize my backup schedule...duh.

I'm not a Terminal sort of guy but did get the following info after pasting in:

ls -alOe /Volumes
id
echo "done"

My drive name is 'rw' and my user name is 'rw'.

Last login: Tue Mar 6 22:23:44 on ttys000
unknown-00-17-f2-e7-21-31:~ rw$ ls -alOe /Volumes
total 8
drwxrwxrwt@ 3 root admin hidden 102 Mar 6 21:59 .
0: group:everyone deny add_file,add_subdirectory,directory_inherit,only_inherit
drwxrwxr-x 43 root admin - 1530 Mar 6 17:01 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 1 Mar 6 21:35 rw -> /
unknown-00-17-f2-e7-21-31:~ rw$ id
uid=502(rw) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1),401(com.apple.access_screensharing),204(_developer),100(_lpoperator), 98(_lpadmin),81(_appserveradm),80(admin),79(_appserverusr),61(localaccounts),12(everyone),404(com.apple.sharepoint.group .3),403(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2)
unknown-00-17-f2-e7-21-31:~ rw$ echo "done"

More problems...I've just noticed Chrome isn't recording any history!

Thanks for looking.

[trevor]

Quote: But...I have serious problems with some apps having permission problems. For example Photoshop can't write a pref file on quit, Outlook gives an error 'You do not have permissions to access the Outlook application folder...', If I create a new User and then launch Outlook it works fine. Dreamweaver won't launch at all and more.

Given your description of the problem, I think that we probably need to concentrate on the permissions of your home folder, and maybe the /Applications folder, but not the contents of /Volumes.

Could you show us the entire transcript from the following commands?

ls -alOe ~
ls -alOe ~/Library
ls -alOe ~/Library/Preferences
ls -alOe /Applications
echo "done"

Trevor

[soho]

Thanks Trevor. I'm more convinced it's solely my User folder causing the problems as I can open all the problem apps in a new user without any issues.

I pasted the above in Terminal and it returned a transcript 300,000 characters long...gulp. So i've pasted below the first 300 lines. If you do require the complete transcript let me know and I'll get it to you another way.

I have 3 user folder at the moment testing things, 'richard', 'test', and 'rw'.
'rw' is the problem one.

Thanks again.

Last login: Wed Mar  7 09:48:22 on console
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ 
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ ls -alOe ~
total 40
drwxr-xrwx+ 20 rw    staff  -        680 Mar  6 19:12 .
 0: group:everyone deny delete
 1: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  admin  -        238 Mar  6 21:29 ..
-rw-r--rw-+  1 rw    staff  -          3 Mar  6 08:34 .CFUserTextEncoding
 0: user:richard allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
-rw-r--rw-@  1 rw    staff  hidden 15364 Mar  6 20:41 .DS_Store
 0: user:richard allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwx------  22 rw    staff  -        748 Mar  6 20:32 .Trash
-rw-------   1 rw    staff  -        484 Mar  7 07:10 .bash_history
drwx------   5 rw    staff  -        170 Mar  7 09:49 .dropbox
drwxr-xrwx+  5 root  staff  -        170 Feb  3  2011 Applications
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@ 14 root  staff  -        476 Nov 10  2010 CX116 Fonts
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@ 82 rw    staff  -       2788 Mar  6 19:24 Desktop
 0: group:everyone deny delete
 1: user:root allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
 2: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@ 39 root  staff  -       1326 Mar  6 20:40 Documents
 0: user:rw allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
 1: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+  4 root  staff  -        136 Mar  1 14:09 Downloads
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@  9 root  staff  -        306 Mar  2 09:31 Dropbox
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@ 51 root  staff  -       1734 Mar  6 20:20 Library
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@  8 root  staff  -        272 Feb 29 15:44 Movies
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@ 21 root  staff  -        714 Jan 27 10:26 Music
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@ 16 root  staff  -        544 Feb 26 15:37 Pictures
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@  6 root  staff  -        204 Jun 27  2006 Public
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+  3 root  staff  -        102 Jun 30  2006 Shared
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@  4 root  staff  -        136 Dec 11  2008 Sites
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ ls -alOe ~/Library
total 48
drwxr-xrwx@  51 root  staff  -       1734 Mar  6 20:20 .
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+  20 rw    staff  -        680 Mar  6 19:12 ..
 0: group:everyone deny delete
 1: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
-rw-r--rw-@   1 test  503    hidden 21508 Mar  6 20:20 .DS_Store
 0: user:richard allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   2 root  staff  -         68 Apr 23  2007 .D_$_Store
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
-rw-r--rw-+   1 test  503    -          0 Jun 15  2006 .localized
 0: user:richard allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   6 root  staff  -        204 Aug 13  2008 Acrobat User Data
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx@   2 root  staff  -         68 Aug 28  2010 Address Book Plug-Ins
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+ 128 root  staff  -       4352 Mar  6 20:33 Application Support
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   6 root  staff  -        204 Feb 11  2008 Audio
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   2 root  staff  -         68 Feb 28 13:52 Autosave Information
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+ 164 root  staff  -       5576 Mar  6 18:23 Caches
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   8 root  staff  -        272 Mar  1 12:23 Calendars
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   4 root  staff  -        136 Aug 26  2010 ColorSync
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   3 root  staff  -        102 Apr  7  2011 Colors
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   4 root  staff  -        136 Jan  9 14:55 Contextual Menu Items
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
drwxr-xrwx+   5 root  staff  -        170 Mar  4 20:44 Cookies
 0: user:richard allow list,add_file,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,write

[trevor]

Quote: Originally Posted by soho so I get info on the User folder and changed permissions to 'me' read/write and apply to all enclosing items.

Oh, how I dislike that the Finder has that 'Apply to Enclosed Items" checkbox. You've got a mess going there. I think I'm going to leave all those permissive "user:richard allow" ACLs that are cluttering things up, fix the sub-optimum unix permissions that I can see so far, and then look again. I would not advise taking this computer into a hostile environment, like going to the Black Hat Conference.

This battery of commands below will not completely fix the problem, mostly because I can't see all the problem yet, and I don't want to just strip all ACLs off--that will do as much damage as it helps.

Quote: Originally Posted by soho I have 3 user folder at the moment testing things, 'richard', 'test', and 'rw'. 'rw' is the problem one.

One important point that we need to know--are you entering these commands from the 'rw' user or the 'richard' user? I'm assuming 'rw', since you identify that as the problem and they own much a few of the items in that directory, but given your problems it's still a bit ambiguous. If the user that issued these commands in your above transcript is not 'rw', don't enter the commands below--they're based on that assumption.

OK, let's start with the following commands from the same user as before:

sudo chmod o-w ~
sudo chmod 600 ~/.CFUserTextEncoding
sudo rm ~/.DS_Store
sudo chown rw ~/Applications
sudo chmod g+w,o-w ~/Applications
sudo chmod 700 ~/Desktop
sudo chown rw ~/Documents
sudo chmod 700 ~/Documents
sudo chown rw ~/Documents
sudo chmod 700 ~/Documents
sudo chown rw ~/Dropbox
sudo chmod g+w ~/Dropbox
sudo chown rw ~/Library
sudo chmod 700 ~/Library
sudo chown rw ~/Movies
sudo chmod 700 ~/Movies
sudo chown rw ~/Music
sudo chmod 700 ~/Music
sudo chown rw ~/Pictures
sudo chmod 700 ~/Pictures
sudo chown rw ~/Public
sudo chmod 755 ~/Public
sudo chown rw ~/Shared
sudo chmod g+w ~/Shared
sudo chown rw ~/Sites
sudo chmod o-w ~/Sites
sudo rm ~/Library/.DS_Store
sudo rm ~/Library/.D_$_Store
sudo chown -R rw:staff ~/Library
sudo chmod -R o-w ~/Library
ls -alO ~
ls -alO ~/Library
ls -alO ~/Library/Preferences
echo "done"

Because of all the 'sudo's that prepend the commands, you will be asked for your admin password. Enter it at the prompt. As you type it nothing will be echoed back to the screen. This is normal. If this is your first time entering 'sudo', you will be given a warning about it's usage. This is also normal.

Trevor

[Hal Itosis]

Quote: Originally Posted by soho So my question is...is there a way to reset the permissions and solve these issues?

Now that we've seen the 'state' of your home folder, then (theoretically) this article for Leopard should be useful for Snow Leopard as well:

TS1334 - Mac OS X 10.5: Renaming or saving after using "Apply to enclosed items" on a Home folder

[Lion users would need to follow a slightly different procedure.]

At the same time, it's still a good idea to follow trevor's instructions, so that we can see how the state of your home folder (or folders) improve.

[soho]

oh gawd...here goes. back to you in 20 mins.

[soho]

back immediately with:

unknown-00-17-f2-e7-21-31:~ rw$

[trevor]

Quote: Originally Posted by soho back immediately with: unknown-00-17-f2-e7-21-31:~ rw$

That's just your prompt. But there were three 'ls' statements that should have listed some of your directories. Could we see the results of those?

Trevor

[soho]

i should add I still have access to the original preview drive that I cloned from Disk Warrior. I could re-clone and start from scratch if you think it would help the situation.

[soho]

hi trevor

in terminal I pasted in the above, entered my password and it returned the following transcript


sudo chown rw ~/Library
sudo chmod 700 ~/Library
sudo chown rw ~/Movies
sudo chmod 700 ~/Movies
sudo chown rw ~/Music
sudo chmod 700 ~/Music
sudo chown rw ~/Pictures
sudo chmod 700 ~/Pictures
sudo chown rw ~/Public
sudo chmod 755 ~/Public
sudo chown rw ~/Shared
sudo chmod g+w ~/Shared
sudo chown rw ~/Sites
sudo chmod o-w ~/Sites
sudo rm ~/Library/.DS_Store
sudo rm ~/Library/.D_$_Store
sudo chown -R rw:staff ~/Library
sudo chmod -R o-w ~/Library
ls -alO ~
ls -alO ~/Library
ls -alO ~/Library/Preferences
echo "done"Last login: Wed Mar 7 21:04:58 on ttys000
unknown-00-17-f2-e7-21-31:~ rw$ sudo chmod o-w ~
Password:
unknown-00-17-f2-e7-21-31:~ rw$

[trevor]

Something happened incorrectly with the paste that you did, there's huge bunches of commands that aren't shown at all, all but one of the commands is shown before the prompt, and there's no results at all for the 'ls' commands. Please try again.

Trevor

[soho]

Hi Trevor
I think I see what the problem is now. The original internal hard drive which corrupted was also called 'rw', although not mounted on the desktop I think it was causing the weird output in Terminal. I've now formatted it and renamed it. So...here's the as much as the transcript I could input.

Last login: Fri Mar  9 09:45:07 on console
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod o-w ~
Password:
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod o-w ~
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 600 ~/.CFUserTextEncoding
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo rm ~/.DS_Store
rm: /Users/rw/.DS_Store: No such file or directory
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Applications
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod g+w,o-w ~/Applications
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 700 ~/Desktop
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Documents
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 700 ~/Documents
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Documents
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 700 ~/Documents
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Dropbox
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod g+w ~/Dropbox
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Library
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 700 ~/Library
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Movies
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 700 ~/Movies
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Music
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 700 ~/Music
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Pictures
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 700 ~/Pictures
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Public
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod 755 ~/Public
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Shared
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod g+w ~/Shared
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown rw ~/Sites
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod o-w ~/Sites
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo rm ~/Library/.DS_Store
rm: /Users/rw/Library/.DS_Store: No such file or directory
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo rm ~/Library/.D_$_Store
rm: /Users/rw/Library/.D_: No such file or directory
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chown -R rw:staff ~/Library
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ sudo chmod -R o-w ~/Library
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ ls -alO ~
total 8
drwxr-xr-x+ 19 rw    staff  -  646 Mar  9 08:57 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  admin  -  238 Mar  6 21:29 ..
-rw-------+  1 rw    staff  -    3 Mar  6 08:34 .CFUserTextEncoding
drwx------  23 rw    staff  -  782 Mar  7 17:01 .Trash
-rw-------   1 rw    staff  - 3262 Mar  9 09:10 .bash_history
drwx------   5 rw    staff  -  170 Mar  9 09:45 .dropbox
drwxrwxr-x+  5 rw    staff  -  170 Feb  3  2011 Applications
drwxr-xrwx@ 14 root  staff  -  476 Nov 10  2010 CX116 Fonts
drwx------@ 81 rw    staff  - 2754 Mar  7 17:01 Desktop
drwx------@ 39 rw    staff  - 1326 Mar  6 20:40 Documents
drwxr-xrwx+  4 root  staff  -  136 Mar  1 14:09 Downloads
drwxrwxrwx@  9 rw    staff  -  306 Mar  2 09:31 Dropbox
drwx------@ 50 rw    staff  - 1700 Mar  9 08:57 Library
drwx------@  8 rw    staff  -  272 Feb 29 15:44 Movies
drwx------@ 21 rw    staff  -  714 Jan 27 10:26 Music
drwx------@ 16 rw    staff  -  544 Feb 26 15:37 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x@  6 rw    staff  -  204 Jun 27  2006 Public
drwxrwxrwx+  3 rw    staff  -  102 Jun 30  2006 Shared
drwxr-xr-x@  4 rw    staff  -  136 Dec 11  2008 Sites
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ ls -alO ~/Library
total 0
drwx------@  50 rw  staff  -  1700 Mar  9 08:57 .
drwxr-xr-x+  19 rw  staff  -   646 Mar  9 08:57 ..
drwxr-xr-x+   2 rw  staff  -    68 Apr 23  2007 .D_$_Store
-rw-r--r--+   1 rw  staff  -     0 Jun 15  2006 .localized
drwxr-xr-x+   6 rw  staff  -   204 Aug 13  2008 Acrobat User Data
drwxr-xr-x@   2 rw  staff  -    68 Aug 28  2010 Address Book Plug-Ins
drwxr-xr-x+ 128 rw  staff  -  4352 Mar  6 20:33 Application Support
drwxr-xr-x+   6 rw  staff  -   204 Feb 11  2008 Audio
drwxr-xr-x+   2 rw  staff  -    68 Feb 28 13:52 Autosave Information
drwxr-xr-x+ 165 rw  staff  -  5610 Mar  9 09:45 Caches
drwxr-xr-x+   8 rw  staff  -   272 Mar  9 10:07 Calendars
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 Aug 26  2010 ColorSync
drwxr-xr-x+   3 rw  staff  -   102 Apr  7  2011 Colors
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 Jan  9 14:55 Contextual Menu Items
drwxr-xr-x+   5 rw  staff  -   170 Mar  9 09:10 Cookies
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 Oct 31 12:52 Dictionaries
drwxr-xr-x+   5 rw  staff  -   170 Jun 29  2009 Favorites
drwxr-xr-x+  14 rw  staff  -   476 Aug 27  2009 FontCollections
drwxr-xr-x+ 429 rw  staff  - 14586 Feb 15 13:34 Fonts
drwxr-xr-x+   2 rw  staff  -    68 Nov 25  2010 Fonts Disabled
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 Aug 26  2010 Google
drwxr-xr-x+   3 rw  staff  -   102 Sep  9  2009 Icons
drwxr-xr-x+   2 rw  staff  -    68 May 23  2010 Internet Plug-Ins
drwxr-xr-x+   8 rw  staff  -   272 Mar  9 10:05 Keychains
drwxr-xr-x+  14 rw  staff  -   476 Mar  9 09:45 LaunchAgents
drwxr-xr-x+   3 rw  staff  -   102 Sep 23  2008 Lockdown
drwxr-xr-x+  58 rw  staff  -  1972 Feb 28 13:53 Logs
drwxr-xr-x+  23 rw  staff  -   782 Feb 27 13:15 Mail
drwxr-xr-x+   2 rw  staff  -    68 Oct 27 14:38 Mail Downloads
drwxr-xr-x+   3 rw  staff  -   102 Feb  6  2011 MobileDevice
drwxr-xr-x+   3 rw  staff  -   102 Jul 31  2010 PDF Services
drwxr-xr-x+   2 rw  staff  -    68 Nov 30  2010 Phones
drwxr-xr-x+   8 rw  staff  -   272 Jun 14  2011 PreferencePanes
drwxr-xr-x+ 573 rw  staff  - 19482 Mar  9 10:10 Preferences
drwxr-xr-x+   5 rw  staff  -   170 Dec  5 13:16 Printers
drwxr-xr-x+   5 rw  staff  -   170 Dec  6  2009 PubSub
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 May  6  2011 QuickTime
drwxr-xr-x+  10 rw  staff  -   340 Oct 26  2009 Receipts
drwxr-xr-x+  10 rw  staff  -   340 Dec 12  2008 Recent Servers
drwxr-xr-x+  14 rw  staff  -   476 Feb 15 15:19 Safari
drwxr-xr-x+   2 rw  staff  -    68 Oct 13  2010 Screen Savers
drwxr-xr-x@   5 rw  staff  -   170 Jan 28  2010 Screenr
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 Aug 26  2010 Scripts
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 Aug 26  2010 Speech
drwxr-xr-x+   3 rw  staff  -   102 Feb  9 11:57 Spelling
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 Aug 26  2010 Sync Services
drwxr-xr-x+   6 rw  staff  -   204 Apr 13  2009 Widgets
drwxr-xr-x+   4 rw  staff  -   136 Aug 26  2010 Workflows
drwxr-xr-x+   5 rw  staff  -   170 Aug 26  2010 iMovie
drwxr-xr-x+   9 rw  staff  -   306 Jul 22  2010 iTunes
Richards-MacBook-Pro:~ rw$ ls -alO ~/Library/Preferences
total 28584
drwxr-xr-x+ 573 rw  staff  -        19482 Mar  9 10:10 .
drwx------@  50 rw  staff  -         1700 Mar  9 08:57 ..
-rw-r--r--@   1 rw  staff  hidden   24580 Mar  6 19:19 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@   1 rw  staff  hidden      77 Aug 18  2008 .DS_Store 
-rw-r--r--@   1 rw  staff  hidden      71 Jul  7  2007 .EssentialSData96341
-rw-------@   1 rw  staff  -         1146 Mar  9 09:55 .GlobalPreferences.plist
-rw-r--r--+   1 rw  staff  -         2125 Aug 10  2010 .GlobalPreferences.plist.bak
-rw-r--r--+   1 rw  staff  -      1928916 Feb 17 19:47 .Icon    
-rw-r--r--+   1 rw  staff  -         4096 Jun  8  2010 .X8JkfDK6vf
-rw-r--r--@   1 rw  staff  hidden       0 Apr  7  2010 .com.apple.26sfqqbNtzfLopjudovG
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[soho]

Hi again Trevor.
Since reformatting and renaming the corrupt internal drive everything is now working fine...phew. System for some strange reason was obviously referencing the it even though it wasn't mounted, I suppose it was my own fault for recreating the exact same drive name and user-name/passord on the external drive which seemed to confuse system.

I would still like to sort my permissions if you think they are messed up.

I notice you are based in Boulder...if you're a Radiohead fan PM me re 13th March.

[trevor]

Well, your ownership and permissions in your home folder look 90% better now than they did earlier. You've still got all of those super-permissive ACLs on everything (in other words 0: user:richard allow read,write,append,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity
), but as it stands now most things should be working.

Trevor