Problems opening up 'Base' folder (Mac)

[Tw]

I recently just reinstalled Trem, and after a few minutes of gameplay I realized I forgot to add my HUD that I use in, but when I try to put it in base folder it says "The item cannot be moved, because "base" cannot be modified" As you can see i'm no computer genius  If anyone knows how to fix it would be greatly appreciated.

[X-20]

I had this problem when i first installed trem - Where did you install it to? i found if you install it to the desktop it gets rid of that problem, if you still have this problem there should be a option "authenticate" and you enter the main username and password to authenticate it...

Otherwise if that last part went over the top of your head, if you have only 1 user on the mac it would be your username and password, if you have over 1 user on the mac than use the username and password of the administrative user.
 

[benmachine]

It sounds like you might not be using the same user to play as you did to install. Try selecting the base folder, press command-I to bring up the Get Info window (you can also access this window from the File menu), and open the tab for Sharing & Permissions (which might be called something else if you're not on Leopard but will probably be similar).
It should be pretty clear if something's wrong there, so fiddle around in that window and see if you can get it to work. If you just change everything to read and write that should be more than enough, but it's probably better to only give the permissions that are needed.

[Shturts]

I have a similar problem except that i cant find my UI folder anymore, meaning i cant install HUDS maps etc... I'll explain how it came to be, as soon as I installed OSX 10.5 and opened tremulous (it having been preserved from the OS change) i went into a server and noticed i didnt have that map and it was a fairly large one (hamu), so i went online, got the map file and looked for the UI folder but couldn't find it all that was contained within the base folder was the default maps, a file titled data-1.1.0.pk3, maprotation.cfg, server.cfg, and vms-1.1.0.pk3, so i figured i'd right click on the tremulous application icon and click "show package contents". once i entered the folder and opened the contents i found another folder entitled 'base' but the only things in there were a bunch of files with the suffix .dylib so to my dismay i waited 2 hours for all of hamunaptra to download, which was quite annoying, so i was wondering if anyone could help me fix my problem, I think I have provided enough details =D

[benmachine]

/Users/you/Library/Application Support/Tremulous/base

^^ your third base folder.

[Shturts]

AH! omg THANKYOU SO MUCH BEN! =D <3 *e-hugs* lol

[Sakura-chan/Tsunade]

could you tell me where my third base folder is on windows?

[UniqPhoeniX]

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Tremulous

[Le Compilateur]

You can open the Get Info window by selecting the offending folder and pressing ⌘-I. Then expand the Sharing & Permissions segment, click on the little padlocky thing, enter the name of an admin (probably you) and their password, and diddle around with the permissions to your heart's content.

You can also use chmod by doing this in Terminal:

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chmod u+w <path_of_folder>
I recommend the Terminal way because it's faster, easier, and requires less instructions.

If permission is denied (highly unlikely), do:

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sudo chmod u+w <path_of_folder>
Then enter your admin password at the prompt. If you aren't an admin, there is probably very little you can do to fix this problem.

Some geek information: u in u+w means "the user who owns the file/folder". w means "write". The + adds w to u, meaning it enables that folder's write permissions for u (get it? u = you). If you wanted to take away your write permissions, you would do u-w instead.

[Rocinante]

You probably want to do that recursively (on the directory and all its contents), ie sudo chmod -R u+w <directory>

If you're interested in learning UNIX permissions, in terminal type man chmod to bring up the manual page.  Everything you ever wanted to know about using base-8 numbers for permissions.  For even more fun, if using 10.4 or higher, farther down the page is a description of ACLs - permissions on steroids.

Bonus points to Le Compilateur for actually getting the cloverleaf instead of using <Cmd>

[Le Compilateur]

Ooh, I forgot about -R.

If you ever do a quick-and-dirty reinstall (dragging and dropping) from a Time Machine backup disk and find you aren't allowed to access any of your restored files, do this:

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chmod -R -N ~