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Need a way reset ACL permissions without snow leopard CD boot

Hi, I took the mac into the store today to inquire why my snow leopard won't boot to format the hard drive. They ended up using the network boot to install the Mac OS because they couldn't figure it out. Now I have an ACL permissions now that I completed a file migration from the old volume. Can I make a USB boot to try that? Is there something I can do with the deskop?

serialband

What do you mean exactly? The owner is not the same?

chown -R USER_NAME ~

snoopaloop

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Never mind. I used the migration tool and the document permissions were not correct. Apparently, the account name needs to be more unique to avoid this situation. I simply performed a get info, selected sharing and permissions, and added administrator group permissions below to fix it

snoopaloop

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I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for snoopaloop's comment #a40026046

for the following reason:

It was the best resolution for the situation

serialband

That's actually not the correct way to set permissions. Open a terminal and run

chown -R USER_NAME ~/Documents.

It should set it to the new system's proper UID associated with the local system's USER_NAME.

snoopaloop

ASKER

Why is it not correct when the solution worked? It there some adverse effect when correcting the situation this way?

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snoopaloop

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Thanks for the help.