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| 1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC ownership or permissions are not set properly error
Message 115659 Posted 21 Mar 2025 by ashealey |
I was able to fix this without a reinstall. The directory /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects/virtualbox has a different owner (boinc_project instead of boinc_master like all the other directories), but it is also missing READ permission for Others. The last is the one that seemed to fix it for me. I executed the following commands and I was able to stop/restart the software with no issues instead of having to reinstall every time. cd "/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/projects" sudo chown -R boinc_master virtualbox chmod -R o+r virtualbox Ocne I did both of those, I've had no more issues. Let me know if it works for you, but it would be nice if they fixed it in the install. |
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