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Ignoring ownership and 501 orphans

Rather than migrating some files to a new Mac, they were copied to an external drive. But some of them couldn’t be opened because of ‘permissions’. Here’s why and how to fix it.

August 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Parental Controls: Safeguarding the vulnerable

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How to set a managed account up for a child, or another vulnerable user, using Parental Controls.

April 20, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: No normal user

Why does almost every Mac user use their system in an admin role? Shouldn’t macOS encourage us to be ‘normal’ users?

April 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Tax chaos looms

Most governments promise to reform the tax system to reduce costs and increase compliance. So how would it help to switch business income to quarterly returns, instead of annual?

January 21, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

The 501 orphan problem: why you shouldn’t delete the primary admin user

To OS X’s Unix heart, you are not a name but a user ID. The first admin user account is 501, and something rather special.

May 11, 2016 Macs, Technology

How to use Parental Controls to protect your children

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El Capitan, and previous versions of OS X, provide extensive controls over managed accounts, which are ideal for safeguarding vulnerable users such as children.

October 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Malmigration

My iTunes Music folder did not migrate properly to my new Mac. How can I fix it?

July 20, 2015 Macs, Technology
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