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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Migrating to new machine
Date: 19 Mar 2015 16:41:59 GMT
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On 2015-03-19, J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:
> John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I've had a Macbook Pro die on me though I was able to make a Time 
>> Machine backup, and then migrate that to a working computer (an MBAir)
>> It created another user, the result now being that a number of folders
>> are locked with the red circle meaning don't enter. I can change 
>> permissions so that "everybody" can Read and Write, but still no access
>> to the locked folders, such as Documents, Music and so forth.
>> 
>> What might be done to access all these folders?
>
> Log in as the user who own them,
> or if you can't, activate the root user,

Note: There's no need to activate the root user when you can simply log
into any administrator account and use sudo.

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