Tagged: permissions

May 13, 2010

Are you having problems with Flash on the Mac?

First join the club. Second, try Carolyn’s advice from Adobe. Apparently “Anytime you uninstall then reinstall the Flash Player plugin you must repair disk permissions. Adobe mentions this on their site. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/2dda3d81.html

Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it’s finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of “messages” in the permissions window, it’s ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, “Permissions Repair Complete” when it’s finished… you’re done. Quit Disk Utility and r*estart your Mac.*” Apparently this fixed the issue for the individual.

May 4, 2010

kmosx: I accidentally set a disk’s permissions to No Access

Wow! I didn’t know this happens. Very good instructions by Niel in case this happens to you.

November 30, 2009

Don’t have permissions to restore on a Mac upgrade

Two ways listed in this post to fix the issue. One is to rerun the installation for Snow Leopard and select the migration assistant. The second is to manually change the permissions on the files by selecting the get info and then selecting the permissions tab at the bottom. When you select All Administrators and read/write then everyone has permission to that file who is an administrator. Read more here.