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Asked: 2009-11-18 05:48:00 +0800 CST

Mac OS 10.4 asking for admin credentials for folder deletion

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A user in our company uses Mac OS 10.4 on a G5. She has a CD with Illustrator CS3 stuff on it. She copied 2 folders on the desktop and now she needs to delete both. When she tries, she gets a popup asking to enter Administrator Username and Password.

I just don't get why she can't do that since I burned the Illustrator stuff onto a DVD directly from the server. She was able to open, delete, modify everything from the server but from the DVD, she cannot. I did not change any security settings at all.

Does anyone know about that?

Thanks, David.

mac-osx

1 Answers

  1. My guess is it inherited the ownership and file permissions from the box it was copied from. Since her user isn't the owner OS X wants admin privs to delete it.

    Open terminal, cd to desktop, ls -ld on the directory. Who owns the files and what are the permissions?

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