Administrator status does not seem fully functional in fresh install Mojave

[interobang]

ok, try again

 

[justinhe]

and will i have to do this for each folder/file? or just the root folder?

for your previous user's home dir, you just need to change the ownership of paulrayner2 folder.

 

[justinhe]

ok, try again

you did it correct, but because these are sensitive data, you don't have ownership, you can't access, which is a normal thing. change the ownership with chown command and then you'll be fine.

 

[interobang]

Worked beautifully! thanks for that mate, you're a legend

 

[justinhe]

Worked beautifully! thanks for that mate, you're a legend

by the way you may want to learn some basic unix stuff, keywords: basic bash commands ; unix file permission and ownership. just google it.

 

[interobang]

OK thanks. Will do. One last question, can I use that command on a whole drive if I just drag the volume into the terminal after that command?

 

[justinhe]

OK thanks. Will do. One last question, can I use that command on a whole drive if I just drag the volume into the terminal after that command?

yes you can. but there are lots of files in, for example, /Volumes/your_drive/System/, with root:wheel ownership, if you change it to $USER:staff, you may not be able to boot your computer with the old drive, and it is not necessary to do that. you only need to chown of this dir:

/Volumes/Old_Drive_name/Users/Previous_user_name

 

[interobang]

okydoky. Thanks heaps

 

[interobang]

@justinhe Hi there friend. You helped me with ownership issues last year, and I seem to be having similar issues again after a fresh install, but despite my own investigations into it, I cannot seem to figure it out myself.
I ran into the problem when trying to restore my davinci resolve database:

And looking back at your advice here, I've looked into what the problem could be, but I don't want to do something silly like change the permission of my root folder, but I cannot see any difference in the ownership except on the root folders...? See attached investigation from the terminal.

 

[interobang]

There's definately somthing weird going on here, because I just got this error, trying to install an ICC profile after calibrating my screen in DisplayCal:



but then when I tried to install it "for current user only", it installed:



This leads me to believe that I'm not the admin on my machine. But I am if you look in System Preferences.