Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)
Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)
- Subject: Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)
- From: Antonio Nunes <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:05:34 +0100
On Aug 28, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
In the 3rd step, how did you copy the home directory? The safest way
would be using the 'ditto' command, which preserves user/group
metadata. If you used 'cp -R', the destination files will end up
owned by the user doing the copying. If you used the Finder, who
knows how it ended up; I still don't trust the Finder for anything
related to permissions.
Thanks Jens (and Joar),
I did use the Finder, but, more importantly I guess, when I copied the
folder, I was in the administrator account, not in the user account.
Not wanting to waste time trying if it would work if I copied (with
the Finder) from within the correct account, I used ditto to create
the copy on the destination volume:
ditto -V -rsrc /source/path /destination/path
That worked wonderfully.
You didn't mention whether you rebooted into 10.6 in between any
steps here. It's important to note that if you're sharing a user
account between two OS installations, it has to have the same
numeric userid on both, because file ownership is stored on disk
numerically. By default OS X creates the first user account as uid
501 and increments from there. You can change the userid of an
account via the Advanced sheet in the Accounts system pref, but
afterwards you have to use 'chown' to update the ownership of all
the files in the home directory.
I didn't get to that phase yet. I will do that, once I have my user
account fully fleshed out again, and all applications installed. (I'm
rebuilding my account from 0, not cloning it from my old user account,
so I have to transfer quite a bit of data manually. As you can see,
mail is already up and running :-)
Many thanks for the quick turnaround,
António
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