AUSMUG
11th February 2008, 01:26 PM
If you do an upgrade install or an archive and install with preserve user settings, or even an erase and install with immediate migration from your Tiger partition, you may have strange problems with a number of different things, due to the fact that group:username (GID 501, for the original first admin account) has been dropped, the admin user is now a member of group:staff (GID 20). But your original files will now show as belonging to group unknown), and, depending on what install method you followed, you yourself may be unknown.
Below is an example screenshot from someone else with the same problem.
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/unknown.jpg
I've read of hundreds of reports on Apple's discussion lists, and Googling reveals many hundreds if not thousands of similar problems depending on search criteria used.
Despite this problem being known since Leopard was released there is still no solution and according to reports the upcoming 10.5.2 release is still not going to address this issue.
The problems resulting from this screw-up are many and various, and new ones turn up every day in Apple Discussions. In my case, having done an upgrade install, I discovered that none of the files in my home directory that showed group unknown were being indexed by Spotlight. If you want to share a folder by altering the permissions you can't, and that the Finder crashes when you try--if you click the lock in GetInfo so you can change something, you need to click the + button, do so, but then the Finder crashes. New files get saved as group unknown. Some people report they have to enter their admin password to do anything with their own files, whether save or move or trash. Some programs announce that they are getting an error when attempting to write their preference file.
I'd like to run a poll only for those who upgraded from Tiger (not those who did clean installs) to try and get an idea of the percentage of up-graders hit by this bug.
Below is an example screenshot from someone else with the same problem.
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/unknown.jpg
I've read of hundreds of reports on Apple's discussion lists, and Googling reveals many hundreds if not thousands of similar problems depending on search criteria used.
Despite this problem being known since Leopard was released there is still no solution and according to reports the upcoming 10.5.2 release is still not going to address this issue.
The problems resulting from this screw-up are many and various, and new ones turn up every day in Apple Discussions. In my case, having done an upgrade install, I discovered that none of the files in my home directory that showed group unknown were being indexed by Spotlight. If you want to share a folder by altering the permissions you can't, and that the Finder crashes when you try--if you click the lock in GetInfo so you can change something, you need to click the + button, do so, but then the Finder crashes. New files get saved as group unknown. Some people report they have to enter their admin password to do anything with their own files, whether save or move or trash. Some programs announce that they are getting an error when attempting to write their preference file.
I'd like to run a poll only for those who upgraded from Tiger (not those who did clean installs) to try and get an idea of the percentage of up-graders hit by this bug.