On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 06:44 AM, SLarsonIH at aol.com wrote: > This is soooooo un Macintosh like. Soooooo wrong. I know I'm gonna > have to > move to Jaguar some day, but claw marks on 9 are gonna be soooo deep. > I sure > hope Apple gets it to the point you can do anything without going to > the > command line. *sigh* Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated > into X. I > remember when I used to say that about MicroShaft . . . Well, remember that OS X is still young. AND, anyway, you shouldn't have to log in as root to do this (with Jag, you do with 10.1). I believe anyone who has admin privileges (which you do if you are the owner of the computer) should be able to change ownership with Get Info. BTW, I don't use the Terminal for anything. Daniel ************************** Daniel Beck danielbeck at mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/danielbeck/ Tadayoshi Video Productions dbeck at tvp.jp.com http://tvp.jp.com Video solutions in Tokyo