Help - Unlocking Folders in OSX!

g_warreng_warren
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Please help. Whilst trying to install software earlier, somehow my deskstop folder and user library folder in OSX 10.2.4 for locked. Argh. I can't unlock them as the button in get info is greyed out. I can't do anything. Tried booting into OS9 but they were just normal folders - nothing I could do as they weren't even locked in OS9.

Please rely ASAP!

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    Can you click on the lock button right beside the greyed out owner drop down menu? Enter your admin password, and change to your username.







    I hope I've understood you correctly. This is what you mean, right?
  • Reply 2 of 3
    vandewaalsvandewaals Posts: 450member
    Boot off the install CD and run Repair Permissions in DIsk Utility. Perhaps that will set things right.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    g_warreng_warren Posts: 713member
    Quote:

    Can you click on the lock button right beside the greyed out owner drop down menu? Enter your admin password, and change to your username.



    Thanks for the replies. I can press that button, but the locked checkbox is still greyed out. I'll try that CD thing later thanks.
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