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[betonica]

(crossposted)

So.  Got a new computer (Macbook Pro, extra spiffy screen).  Determined that using Migration Assistant via wireless would take about two days.  (Yes, really.)  So I bought the appropriate firewire cable and did it in two hours, instead.

Got everything on this new, spiffy, beautiful computer.  It's all here.

But I can't access it.  There are folders, with all my stuff in them.  They have those little European "do not enter" symbols on them.  And when I try to open them the computer says "you don't have permission to see its contents."  Feh.  So, okay, there was a password on the old computer.  It just so happens that I chose the same one for the new computer, so if it *asked* me for one, I should be fine.  But it doesn't ask.

Anyone know what I should do?

Comments

[firecat]

Find out which account has permissions on those folders by doing a "Get Info" on one of them. You might be able to log out from the account you're using and log back in with the account that has those permissions.

Another option: Log in with an admin account. Select a folder with a do not enter symbol. "Get Info" on the folder. Click the padlock icon. Type the admin password. Press the + button and add the account you want and the permissions you want.

There's probably a way to automate all that, and/or to do it once on the main folder and have it apply to all the folders inside it, but I'm not sure offhand what that is.

You are not you

[flarenut]

Yeah, what's happened is that all of the stuff almost certainly (btdt) belongs to you, the Allison who has an account on the old machine but not the new one. So in your capacity as admin do what firecat said. And there should be a checkbox to have all enclosed folders inherit the new permissions.

It's not about passwords, it's about identity....