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Why does OS X Lion ask for my password whenever I delete a file in my home directory?

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Mar 15, 202661218 views
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I updated to Mac OS Lion and now every time I delete any file it asks me for my password. Any file - be it on the Desktop, in the Downloads folder or in any other place. It asks me for my password every time. That behaviour is annoying. Is it the new default? Or there is something wrong? Edit: For …

Error Output

➜  Desktop  l | grep terminal
-rw-r--r--@   1 Nerian  staff   841913 22 jul 14:16 terminal.png

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Fix for: Why does OS X Lion ask for my password whenever I delete a file in my home directory?

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The problem was that the folder in my user's directory was owned by root. In order to give back the ownership to my user issue the following command:

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