Situation: I have 2 MacBooks that I tried to share on my home network and mistakenly set group access for Everyone to ""No Access"" - which caused both laptops to fail at startup.
I left one MacBook for repair at Charlotte Street and $100 later got it back in working order. They imaged the hard drive, migrated the data back onto it, and corrected the permissions. In the meantime, I was able to find help online and fixed the other non-working MacBook (with the same problem) in 20 minutes without having to image the drive and migrate the data back to the drive. I booted the laptop from the Leopard system disk, went into Terminal and corrected the permission.
I don't understand why Charlotte Street opted to migrate the data and reinstall everything to accomplish the same thing. It took longer and cost more.
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