You do not have appropriate access privileges
2008-12-29
It used to be Mac upgrades were straight forward and safe, but no longer. I’m continually experiencing some problem or another, though fortunately most are pretty easy to remedy — here’s another and my most recent.
I have an extensive backup strategy which includes backing up to two different external drives. When I upgraded to 10.5.6 I had no issues with Time Machine on the first of the drives but when I got to work today I was greeted with this lovely and informative message:
You do not have appropriate access privileges to save file “.0022xxxxxxxx” in folder “Island”.
It’s an easy fix, open iTerm or Terminal and follow along:
$ cd /Volumes/{volume name} $ sudo chown $USER {file name}
If you have an extra machine at home that you can let run on you home network, then I highly recommend that you take a look at the BackupPc (backuppc.sourceforge.net) project. It is not terribly difficult to setup if you can get rsync running everywhere. It is very much set-and-forget. It has a nice, simple web interface that allows you to monitor its progress and even restore files. The rsync config allows you to backup as little or as much as you want. It will even send you e-mails if you have problems or if it hasn’t backed up a machine for a while. I’ve been running this for a few years and I can’t say enough about it. It has saved me from more than one hard drive failure and it is so easy to use.
You may as well be speaking in tongues … this recent advice, as simply as it may well be, is way over my head.
I prefer your pictures. :)
Thank you, couldn’t find the file, this did the trick. So why can’t finder find a .00XXXX type file, does it not index them?
Cheer!
@Brian - it doesn’t display the file because dot files are deemed too low level by finder.
Thanks for the hint, very useful!
Thank you !!!!