Strange changed permissions after creating new mac user (vim, idl, etc...) [closed]

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I had an account name bally and had to create a new account called jbally because there was something wrong with bally.

This fixed the original issue which is not important but now when I go to save a vim file is says that it's not writable even though the the permissions show -rw----- which match another computer's permissions where vim works on.

any tips?

Thanks, Max

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Answer 1

Since you probably didn't change the owner of any of the files when you created the new account. You just need to change the owner.

To do this use chown to change the owner to jbally.

sudo chown -R jbally /User/bally