I have a server with a community and are downloading / making backups to my local computer. But I have problems with the permissions on the new downloaded catalogs and files. I know my ownership on the server, but how do I find what ownership I have on my local computer so I can do a:
chown -R mylocal:mylocal downloaded stuff?
Title really says it all. I need it for a school project ( a fashion show in spanish )..
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Now under Leopard, under permissions for the 2ndary internal sata drive, it sees an "unknown" account (which is the previous Tiger owner) and it doesn't allow any writing/ deleting on the 2ndary drive.
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The new Home acct name, System, Admin, Everyone etc.
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
please post your first hand experience/comments and post a photo as well ...
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