[X4U] User ID problem

[Russell McGaha]

Geoffrey;
	Short answer; yes.
	Longer answer; normally I just use ccc to move to a new HD.  This  
time since I had some networking troubles that, after talking to some  
fellow ASP's and research on the support boards, needed some harsher  
methods, I did a backup, a repair permissions, and then an archive  
and install, and that left the ownerships royally .... messed up.
	CHOWN, and CHMOD, are good for single files and folders; but not so  
good on an whole HD.
	An archive and install is NOT SUPPOSED to change your UID.  This is  
only the second time I've seen this kind of a mess, the other time  
was on a Leopard, which is MUCH easier to mess up because of the  
extended permissions.
	I was hoping for someway to set items with an UID of, say 504, to  
502 on a whole HD.  I guess I'll just have to do it on a chase by  
chase basis; though doing the /tmp directories and such will be more  
of a challenge.

Russell

On Oct 19, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Geoffrey K. O'Brien wrote:

> Im gong to assume you've gone and done a chmod and chown on the files?
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:
>
>> Folks;
>> 	I've had to do an archive and install that's changed by User ID  
>> from 504 to 502.  That, has left me with a LOT of permission's  
>> problems!!   Is there ANY way to recursively change the group  
>> membership(s) and user ID of files??
>>
>> Apologies in advance for the cross posting.
>>
>> Russell
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