I think the first mistake was letting them load OS 10.5 for you. When my drive failed and I re-loaded Leopard on the new drive, it asked if I wanted to restore from Time Machine. One click and 30 minutes later, it was restored to the state one hour before failure. On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Wendy Dench wrote: > I had to replace my hard drive this week on my iMac as it was failing > but had everything backed up using Time Machine. When I received the > Mac back from Mostly Digital, they had loaded the OS 10.5.8 on for me > but I was restoring the files myself. I did this by using Migration > Assistant under Utilities. It seems to have moved my files, > applications except for iTunes and Photos (what I have found so far) > but the problem is now everytime I make a change to a file, move a > file, even throw it out I have to go through the authentication. And > it also says "you cannot write to disk", so I have to save it to the > desktop then move it over to it's correct spot on the hard drive and > then of course the authentication window comes up. > How can I stop this? > Wendy Dench > --- > Manage your account options at //www.freelists.org/list/muglo > > > Wayne Dobson pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx (519) 474-1253 res. (519) 860-2725 cell --- Manage your account options at //www.freelists.org/list/muglo