![]() And HE could read files and open directories, and create directories, but not write to or copy files! ![]() WAIT - THERE'S MORE: two days later, I passed a DOS-formatted USB memory dongle with some files on it to a guy sitting next to me on a Linux Mint (Ubuntu-derived) laptop. what the heck is user 99 in a standard install? ![]() And despite my deleting the dummmy user's home directory, that user name still appears at time running processes. Oddly, the new user never showed up in System>Administration>Users and Groups. No luck - I could read files and open directories, and create directories, but not write to or copy files. Here's a quirk: Last week, I ran into a corollary issue: while I have been able to read files from Mac external USB HDs, I found recently that I was unable to WRITE to any of the ones I tried! The user number was 99, and since I know Mac OSX is in fact a Unix variant I tried creating a user with user number 99.
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