Why can't I open files on my iMac from my MacBook?

EdwardvanWonderen wrote:

The files are on Macintosh HD and on my desktop.

What are the permissions for both your Home folder and for your Desktop folder?

You can use Get Info, but this Terminal command will give better information (you can copy and paste).

ls -aleOd ~/ ~/Desktop

You'll get something like this:

drwxr-xr-x+ 46 barney  staff  - 1472 May  2 12:12 /Users/barney/
 0: group:everyone deny delete
drwx------@  4 barney  staff  -  128 Mar 27 01:38 /Users/barney/Desktop
 0: group:everyone deny delete
 1: group:everyone deny writeextattr

Copy the output and paste it into a reply, here.

EdwardvanWonderen wrote:

I bought a new iMac and restored a backup.

How did you "restore" your backup? You should have Migrated from the backup which will migrate the entire user account from the backup. You then log into that account and use it.

I cannot work in numbers and pages files any more because "i am not autorised'.

Finder -> Info file -> Share and autorisation

Does not work

it shows my Apple account with the permission for 'reding and writing'.

But I can not save etc.

What account on what Mac are you using, and where are the files stored?

Do you have Desktop & Documents in iCloud Drive enabled? Are you signed into the same Apple Account on both Macs?

For 'everyone' it shows 'no permission'

That is correct.

Have you tried making a new user, logging out and into the new account for test?

Are you running any anti virus or cleaning apps?

EdwardvanWonderen wrote:

I restored from a backup of my crashed iMac. All accounts includes.

There is no “restore” of an entire Mac anymore. You can only reinstall macOS, then use Migration Assistant to restore user accounts. So, I assume that’s what you did.

I have the files stored on Google Drive (and local).

It is the same account for both computers

Do you have the same problem for local files as you do with Google Drive?

EdwardvanWonderen wrote:

Could NTFS for Mac have an influence.

It keeps asking me full disk acces.... can not seem to give it to them

Are the files stored on an NTFS drive?

EdwardvanWonderen wrote:

Hi Barney,

How can I see if they are stored on a NTFS drive ?

if they are on an external drive, select the drive and find her and get info. There will be a label for format.

I highly suspect that AV software is messing with you.

EdwardvanWonderen wrote:

Hi Barney,

Yes I have the same problem with files that are locally stored like on my desktop.

I used the Migration Assistant to put back one backup.

I was happy that all restored including my desktop, backgronds etc.

But now this occures and that is realy bad.

I’m not sure why it is happening. I thought maybe it could be something related to restoring the cloud files, but if it affects the local files, I don’t know. Everything seems to be correct except the actual performance you are experiencing.