[dnanian]

Hi, slyfly.

There are weird problems with certain Jaguar volumes where permissions, which seem to be OK on the source volume, will clone improperly. As you've seen, it's not really an issue with SuperDuper! per se, since it happens with CCC (and, by extension, with ditto, Apple's own utility).

The problem is relatively easily rectified, since it tends to only involve ownership, and not the permissions themselves.

To resolve the issue, you first need to determine your default user and group. To do so, go to a Terminal prompt on the new Volume, and -- from your Home directory, issue the following command:

touch permtest

Then, do the following:

ls -l permtest

in one column you should see your short user name, and in one right next to it you'll see your group. This'll be different depending on how long you've had the volume and account: an account created under Jaguar you'd typically be <you>/staff, under Panther you'll be <you>/<you>.

Once you've determined the user and group, you should do:

chown -R <user>:<group> Documents

That'll change the ownership of all your Documents files to your user and group, which is what you want. Note that you should substitute your own user and group for <user> and <group>, with a colon in between. For example, for me, this would be:

chown -R dnanian:staff Documents

Hope that helps get you started!