LrC upgrade messed up catalog; now Mac mini storage used up

[JEASTWOOD75]

Lightroom Version Number

15.1

Operating System

1. macOS 15 Sequoia

Hi, I did the upgrade to LrC last Friday and it moved my catalog and many photos to the Pictures file (it was stored on an external hard drive). It also moved my photos, I think, to my Mac mini, which is now out of storage space. I can't rename files, until I fiddled with it, I couldn't even add now photos to LrC. I really need help figuring out which catalog is the most current (I think I know) but also, what's happening that I've now used up almost 1 TB space on Mini, which was not case before upgrade. Plus I was able to make some edits today and some commands in LrC seem different plus my mouse stopped functioning (eg. can't right click any more)! I'm in US, probably 6 hrs later than you but hope to hear from someone tomorrow. I heard you can also get help on Zoom in some cases. I'd be very open to that if it proves necessary. Thank you in advance for any help.

 

[clee01l]

Let's look at how Computers that are not Windows are structured.

First, there is a Primary Disk. On it is at least One volume. On a MacOS that volume is named 'Macintosh HD'. All other volumes are mounted (attached) to this volume in a folder named Volumes. This Volumes folder is usually hidden but exists as a folder in your Root folder. The Root folder of your primary volume is a folder named "/". This is the first "/" in the path of every named file or folder.
When you first turn on your computer the start up invokes the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
which is firmware on the mother board that starts the computer by looking for a volume named 'MacIntosh HD'

In the Finder panel below 'MacIntosh HD' is called the Startup volume.

On the left panel below is a section labeled Locations One of those locations is your computer by Name. Mine is called 'Mac Studio" Yours is called "Jane's Mac Mini". Below your computer named is a list of mounted volumes with the first being your startup volume "Macintosh HD". Any other volumes that are mounted will appear below 'MacIntosh HD' This can include your external volumes

If you click on any volume you will see the folders that are contained on that volume. (if they are not hidden by the system) In the Location panel above your computer is your Home folder. Mine says 'Cletus Lee'. It is identified with a little home icon. This folder contains all of the folders that you usually use like "Pictures" etc.

The external HD would seem to be the reason there's not storage on the mini.

The contents of your external volume is not counted in the capacity of "MacIntosh HD" What may have happened is that you copied the contents of " Jane Eastwood' s Lightroom Photos..." from the EHD to a folder on "MacIntosh HD". using all of the available space. Can you search your Home folder for folders that are also on " Jane Eastwood' s Lightroom Photos..." to confirm my suspicion?

The gold icon in the screen shot of Jane's Mac Mini is an indicator that the Location listed is not a folder but a volume mounted on Jane's Mac Mini as is "MacIntoshHD'. If you run "GetInfo" on MacIntosh HD you will see that it has less than 100GB of free space (probably much less). You can also look ig Finder at the folders listed for MacIntosh HD to see which ones might not belong.

To take a Proper screen shot Press the following 3 keys {Shift}{Cmd}{5}. Your cursor will turn into crosshairs that you can guide to select a box on your screen. Along the bottom of the screen will be an icon menu with {Capture} as a choice. Pressing {Capture} will copy the area of your screen inside the box to the clip board which can then be used to paste into your replies here.

If you wish you can compare the readability of the screen shot you previously paster with the one I pasted below.

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

Finally, got a screenshot. Here are three views of Finder: Upper left is my external hard drive; lower right is the Macintosh hard drive; upper right is the Mac mini. Note the gold hard drive showing on the Mac mini; it's duplicating what's on my external hard drive. That's what I'm suggesting I delete.

I'm sorry this is so tiny. I could not have it any larger and go through. I'm sure it has everything to do with the lack of space on the mini. I may have found a solution and will attach it again below. As a reminder, the Finder image on the upper right is my messy image file on my external hard drive. The Finder on upper right shows the same huge image file on the Mac mini.

I really do think I need to move this second huge (3+TB file) off my mini, but I need to put it on a new 5 TB external hard drive, which I have. I need a new cable to allow me to attach it to the mini. I believe that would clear up my space problems without getting rid of anything.

I will be gone until later this evening (9 pm Central time) and can check in then to see if you have thoughts on this. Thank you for your patience and consideration.

 

[camner]

I'm sorry this is so tiny. I could not have it any larger and go through. I'm sure it has everything to do with the lack of space on the mini. I may have found a solution and will attach it again below. As a reminder, the Finder image on the upper right is my messy image file on my external hard drive. The Finder on upper right shows the same huge image file on the Mac mini.

I really do think I need to move this second huge (3+TB file) off my mini, but I need to put it on a new 5 TB external hard drive, which I have. I need a new cable to allow me to attach it to the mini. I believe that would clear up my space problems without getting rid of anything.

I will be gone until later this evening (9 pm Central time) and can check in then to see if you have thoughts on this. Thank you for your patience and consideration.

To reiterate what Cleetus said in his post, I think you may be misinterpreting what you are seeing in the Finder window on the upper right in your screenshot. That Finder window with the title "Jane's Mac Mini" is NOT showing the contents of your Mac Mini's storage. It is showing two volumes (Jane Eastwoods Photos...and Macintosh HD) and a pseudo-volume Network. Network can be ignored for the purposes of this conversation.

Macintosh HD is the internal storage drive on your Mac Mini. Jane Eastwoods Photos... is your external that holds your photos. If you open Jane Eastwoods Photos... by double clicking, what you will see is exactly what is in the image on the upper left.

It is not clear to me what you are referring to when you talk about a "3+TB file," unless by that you mean Jane Eastwoods Photos... You cannot move this "off" your Mac Mini if by that you mean "remove it so it will free up space on my Mac Mini." Dragging the orange icon to a 5TB external drive will NOT free up any space whatsoever on your Mac Mini. You will simply have another copy of the contents of your Jane Eastwoods Photos... external drive on a second external drive.

Since you are running out of space on Macintosh HD you need to figure out what is occupying the space on that drive. Here's one way to do that:

• Open up Macintosh HD . You should see something like this:
• 
  
• Type Control-J to get this window:
• 
  
• Check the Calculate all sizes checkbox near the bottom. Nothing will appear to happen right away… Just wait
• Back in the Macintosh HD window, click on the Size column header
• Finally, turn down the arrows at the left of each of the folders in the Finder window.
• Now you will need to wait quite a while for your Mac mini to calculate the sizes of the folders and sub folders. When everything stabilizes, you will see folders and files ordered from largest to smallest (if the order is from smallest to largest, just click on the Size column header again).

By drilling down your folder tree you should be able to see what some of the large items are that are taking up a lot of room. You may need to move some of those items off of Macintosh HD and onto an external hard drive.

What you should be looking for in particular is whether or not you have a second copy of some or all of your images on Macintosh HD

 

[camner]

I meant to add that it is likely that the largest amount of space is being taken up by the Users folder and its subfolders.

 

[camner]

(I had long ago placed my catalog on my external hard drive, but one day, Adobe moved it back to my Pictures file. I had been planning to put it all back on external hd but hadn't yet.).

Actually, placing your catalog and your original photos on different drives is a good idea. If you keep both on the same drive, and that drive stops functioning, you will have lost everything: your photos and your Lightroom catalogue with all of the edits you have done in it.

Do you make regular backups of your Lightroom catalogue through the built-in method Lightroom has for doing that? If so, you should keep the catalog backups on a different drive than your active catalog.

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

Let's look at how Computers that are not Windows are structured.

First, there is a Primary Disk. On it is at least One volume. On a MacOS that volume is named 'Macintosh HD'. All other volumes are mounted (attached) to this volume in a folder named Volumes. This Volumes folder is usually hidden but exists as a folder in your Root folder. The Root folder of your primary volume is a folder named "/". This is the first "/" in the path of every named file or folder.
When you first turn on your computer the start up invokes the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)
which is firmware on the mother board that starts the computer by looking for a volume named 'MacIntosh HD'

In the Finder panel below 'MacIntosh HD' is called the Startup volume.

On the left panel below is a section labeled Locations One of those locations is your computer by Name. Mine is called 'Mac Studio" Yours is called "Jane's Mac Mini". Below your computer named is a list of mounted volumes with the first being your startup volume "Macintosh HD". Any other volumes that are mounted will appear below 'MacIntosh HD' This can include your external volumes

If you click on any volume you will see the folders that are contained on that volume. (if they are not hidden by the system) In the Location panel above your computer is your Home folder. Mine says 'Cletus Lee'. It is identified with a little home icon. This folder contains all of the folders that you usually use like "Pictures" etc.

The contents of your external volume is not counted in the capacity of "MacIntosh HD" What may have happened is that you copied the contents of " Jane Eastwood' s Lightroom Photos..." from the EHD to a folder on "MacIntosh HD". using all of the available space. Can you search your Home folder for folders that are also on " Jane Eastwood' s Lightroom Photos..." to confirm my suspicion?

The gold icon in the screen shot of Jane's Mac Mini is an indicator that the Location listed is not a folder but a volume mounted on Jane's Mac Mini as is "MacIntoshHD'. If you run "GetInfo" on MacIntosh HD you will see that it has less than 100GB of free space (probably much less). You can also look ig Finder at the folders listed for MacIntosh HD to see which ones might not belong.

To take a Proper screen shot Press the following 3 keys {Shift}{Cmd}{5}. Your cursor will turn into crosshairs that you can guide to select a box on your screen. Along the bottom of the screen will be an icon menu with {Capture} as a choice. Pressing {Capture} will copy the area of your screen inside the box to the clip board which can then be used to paste into your replies here.

If you wish you can compare the readability of the screen shot you previously paster with the one I pasted below.
View attachment 27881

Cletus, Thank you for a helpful explanation of the computer structure . I now understand that the gold rectangle under Mac mini is, indeed, the external hard drive. I reviewed the mini and Macintosh HD and cannot find anywhere that the entire contents of the external HD has been copied onto the Macintosh HD. However, there are some image files that need to be moved to the external HD plus nearly 200 GB of jpgs from saved photos. I found almost 400 GB of files that could be trashed or photo-related files that could be transferred to my external HD. Tomorrow, I will start to undertake that process carefully.

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

Actually, placing your catalog and your original photos on different drives is a good idea. If you keep both on the same drive, and that drive stops functioning, you will have lost everything: your photos and your Lightroom catalogue with all of the edits you have done in it.

Do you make regular backups of your Lightroom catalogue through the built-in method Lightroom has for doing that? If so, you should keep the catalog backups on a different drive than your active catalog.

Thank you, Camner. I had been keeping my back ups with my catalog, but I will change that now. I'm frustrated because I can 't figure out what's taking all the space on my Mac mini. I can see that Users is excessively large. I'v attached a screen shot of my Pictures folder on which I've had a practice of saving jpg files I'm sharing. As you can see, some NEF and xmp files have snuck onto my Macintosh HD. I have started moving those over to my external HD. Based on the advice you've given me, I will keep my catalog on my MacHD and my back ups with image files on external HD. This leads me to another question. I should have 1+ TB on my current external HD. I'm wondering if I should start a second external HD with a new catalog. It seems a waste of space but I definitely want to start a new catalog as I structure my catalog by months and years. Any thoughts? Thank you

I meant to add that it is likely that the largest amount of space is being taken up by the Users folder and its subfolders.

 

[Gnits]

There is a Mac utility called Daisy Disk, which makes it very easy to track and visualise what is consuming space on a Mac Drive.

https://daisydiskapp.com/

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

There is a Mac utility called Daisy Disk, which makes it very easy to track and visualise what is consuming space on a Mac Drive.

https://daisydiskapp.com/

Thank you! I'll download and give it a try.

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

There is a Mac utility called Daisy Disk, which makes it very easy to track and visualise what is consuming space on a Mac Drive.

https://daisydiskapp.com/

Thank you again! I have purchased it, examined my Mac mini and find that it seems to be accessing two users simultaneously, splitting up files like Pictures, where I save jpg's of saved files plus Lightroom. (I'll be correcting this as soon as I can get the rest of this figured out). I believe it's somehow 'using" or incorporating my MacBook Pro HD. I have no idea how to correct this. I am going to exam my MacBook Pro HD and see if it looks similar to one of the users as I see it on my mini. I will not be able to get to this until later today or tonight, but wanted to acknowledge how helpful Daisy Disk has been so far and what I've seen. Here are screenshots from the two users, top level view only. janeeastwood is first, jeastwood75 is second.

 

[Gnits]

There might be other disk analysis tool for Mac.. others may have better suggestions.

I have very basic Mac skills.

I use TreeSize on Windows and would dearly like to find the equivalent for Mac. While Disk Daisy does provide a good view of storage, I find it hard work to slice and dice as I wish.. but it is brilliant for identifying the big space hoggers.

 

[camner]

Your 2 screenshots aren’t showing two different users. In the left screenshot jeastwood75 is the parent folder being examined, and the items underneath (Pictures, etc.) are the immediate child folders. In the 2nd screenshot, the Pictures folder (the SAME picture folder as in the 1st screenshot) is displayed as the parent folder, and the other listed folders (Lightroom, etc.) are the immediate children of Pictures.

What DaisyDisk does (very well!) is provide a visual way to see what’s going on in terms of files/folders stored on a drive. But, it’s just displaying the same items that you’d see by “drilling down” by double clicking folders in Finder. Your first screenshot is showing what you would if you had a Finder window open with jeastwood75 as the folder title, and the second screenshot is showing visually what you’d see in the Finder if you double clicked to open the Pictures folder.

I you need to drill down deeper in DaisyDisk to see what’s inside the Lightroom folder, as that’s the folder taking up the most room.

What is the size of your internal Macintosh HD drive?

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

Writing again and hoping a Mac

Your 2 screenshots aren’t showing two different users. In the left screenshot jeastwood75 is the parent folder being examined, and the items underneath (Pictures, etc.) are the immediate child folders. In the 2nd screenshot, the Pictures folder (the SAME picture folder as in the 1st screenshot) is displayed as the parent folder, and the other listed folders (Lightroom, etc.) are the immediate children of Pictures.

What DaisyDisk does (very well!) is provide a visual way to see what’s going on in terms of files/folders stored on a drive. But, it’s just displaying the same items that you’d see by “drilling down” by double clicking folders in Finder. Your first screenshot is showing what you would if you had a Finder window open with jeastwood75 as the folder title, and the second screenshot is showing visually what you’d see in the Finder if you double clicked to open the Pictures folder.

I you need to drill down deeper in DaisyDisk to see what’s inside the Lightroom folder, as that’s the folder taking up the most room.

What is the size of your internal Macintosh HD drive?

Thank you. I have attached a screenshot of the jeastwood75 folder, Lightroom folder as you requested. It is 166+ GB. I have 1 TB on my mini (now wishing I had more). Just to make sure I understand, if janeeastwood is a sub user user under jeastwood75, then when I look at the Picture file under janeeastwood, it shows Lightroom folder using 142.3 GB. However, I can't open the janeeastwood Lightroom folder because it says I don't have authorization. Is that what I should be trying to access? Thank you

 

[clee01l]

One thing I see from your screen shot is the “Lightroom Catalog Smart Previews .lrdata” folder. Smart previews are not essential and are best used when you have your master image on an external drive that you want to leave behind when you travel with a laptop. You can safely deleted this folder and not create any more smart previews on import. While this will free up 5.5 GB of space on your primary drive, it will only make a small dent in your space issue.


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[Johan Elzenga]

Just to make sure I understand, if janeeastwood is a sub user user under jeastwood75, then when I look at the Picture file under janeeastwood, it shows Lightroom folder using 142.3 GB. However, I can't open the janeeastwood Lightroom folder because it says I don't have authorization. Is that what I should be trying to access?

Your screenshot does not show the entire hierarchy, but as far as I can see ‘janeeastwood’ is a different user, and not a subfolder of ‘jeastwood75’. That is why you do not have access if you are logged in as ‘jeastwood75’.

 

[camner]

AFAIK, there is no such thing as a "sub user" in MacOS. As Johan says, in MacOS one can have multiple users, but they are coequal. And as Johan pointed out, many of the folders underneath one user account are inaccessible to you when you are logged in under the other user account.

But I think that the fact you have two user accounts may help explain why you seemingly are running out of room. Is there a reason you have set up two separate users on your Mac Mini? Is that something that you did deliberately, or did that "just happen" as part of something that you did that had another purpose?

It would be useful to see how much space each of your user accounts are taking on your hard drive. Unfortunately, the only way to do that is to log into one of your user accounts, look at the amount of space being taken up, and then log into your other user account and look at the amount of space that is being taken up by this other user. If you try to get both pieces of information while logged in to just one of the accounts, you will get incorrect information.

As you can see, on my laptop I have two user accounts, one for me, one for my wife:


While logged in as camner, I did a Get Info on both the camner user folder and the sharon user folder. These are the results:


As you can see, while logged in as camner Finder is telling me that the sharon user folder is only occupying 78 KB, which is absurdly wrong. The reason Finder is reporting this absurdly low, incorrect storage for amount for the sharon user folder is that when doing a Get Info while logged in as camner, Finder cannot see most of the subfolders in the sharon user folder, and thus cannot calculate how much space is being taken up.

What you will need to do is to be logged in as jeastwood75 and do Get Info on the jeastwood75 user folder, and then log in as jeastwood and do a Get Info on the jeastwood user folder.

(Note that you do not need to log out from one user to login to the other user, but to be able to switch back-and-forth easily, you would need to enable "fast user switching." Since where the setting for this is differs in different versions of MacOS, go to https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/switch-quickly-between-users-mchlp2439/mac and use the drop-down menu at the top to select the version of MacOS you are running and follow the directions specific to your MacOS version. Once fast user switching is enabled, you can switch users quickly from Control Center or the Menu bar if the latter is enabled.)

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

Your screenshot does not show the entire hierarchy, but as far as I can see ‘janeeastwood’ is a different user, and not a subfolder of ‘jeastwood75’. That is why you do not have access if you are logged in as ‘jeastwood75’.

Thank you. I actually wondered that, may have even said there was evidence of that.

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

I apparently ran out of time with my message. I am going to see if I can logout of the jeastwood75 user as I believe that's my laptop.

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

AFAIK, there is no such thing as a "sub user" in MacOS. As Johan says, in MacOS one can have multiple users, but they are coequal. And as Johan pointed out, many of the folders underneath one user account are inaccessible to you when you are logged in under the other user account.

But I think that the fact you have two user accounts may help explain why you seemingly are running out of room. Is there a reason you have set up two separate users on your Mac Mini? Is that something that you did deliberately, or did that "just happen" as part of something that you did that had another purpose?

It would be useful to see how much space each of your user accounts are taking on your hard drive. Unfortunately, the only way to do that is to log into one of your user accounts, look at the amount of space being taken up, and then log into your other user account and look at the amount of space that is being taken up by this other user. If you try to get both pieces of information while logged in to just one of the accounts, you will get incorrect information.

As you can see, on my laptop I have two user accounts, one for me, one for my wife:
View attachment 27938

While logged in as camner, I did a Get Info on both the camner user folder and the sharon user folder. These are the results:
View attachment 27939

As you can see, while logged in as camner Finder is telling me that the sharon user folder is only occupying 78 KB, which is absurdly wrong. The reason Finder is reporting this absurdly low, incorrect storage for amount for the sharon user folder is that when doing a Get Info while logged in as camner, Finder cannot see most of the subfolders in the sharon user folder, and thus cannot calculate how much space is being taken up.

What you will need to do is to be logged in as jeastwood75 and do Get Info on the jeastwood75 user folder, and then log in as jeastwood and do a Get Info on the jeastwood user folder.

(Note that you do not need to log out from one user to login to the other user, but to be able to switch back-and-forth easily, you would need to enable "fast user switching." Since where the setting for this is differs in different versions of MacOS, go to https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/switch-quickly-between-users-mchlp2439/mac and use the drop-down menu at the top to select the version of MacOS you are running and follow the directions specific to your MacOS version. Once fast user switching is enabled, you can switch users quickly from Control Center or the Menu bar if the latter is enabled.)

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

I am trying to logout of my second account jeastwood75, but not sure how to do that. My Mac upgraded to Sequoia 15.6.1 last night and a few things are goofy, like I can't see the Finder open along the top, ie the header info (not sure what top line showing on desktop is called) if I'm in an app. I'm writing to you from my laptop because right now, typing does not show up if looking at the users and functions within them, eg, Pictures, Downloads, etc. If you see this, it would be helpful to have instructions about how to actually logout from a user. Also, to answer Camner's question from yesterday, I did not intentionally login to both users on my mini. This happened during or shortly before/after I did the upgrade to LrC over a week ago. Thank you for your persistence in staying with me to help me sort this. I've learned some very helpful things in all this thanks to all of you, but still woefully ignorant of how to fix.

 

[camner]

For most individually owned computers, there is typically only one user account set up on that physical computer (but there exceptions). If two different people share the use of a single physical computer, one approach is to set up two different users accounts. For example, in my household, there are three Macs. The desktop my wife uses has a single user account. The desktop I use has a single user account. The laptop we both use has two user accounts, one for me, and one for my wife. The benefit of setting the laptop up this way is that when the laptop is logged into with my user account, everything looks the way I want it to, and I can see my documents, etc. but I cannot see my wife’s documents. As far as I can see when logged in to my user account, there are no documents belonging to my wife on that computer. Similarly, when my wife is logged into her user account, the laptop looks the way she wants it to have it appear, and she cannot see any of my documents.

Based on your fuzzy screenshot, your Mac Mini has two user accounts: jeastwood75 and janeeastwood. Although you write that jeastwood75 is your laptop, it is quite possible for two different physical computers to have identically named user accounts. So, the jeastwood75 user account on your Mac Mini isn’t your laptop…it’s a user account on your Mac Mini that happens to have the same name as a user account on your laptop.

To answer your question about how to log out of a user account, if you click on the Apple menu, the last menu item will say Log out XXXX, where XXXX is the currently active logged in user.

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

Hello, I have been trying to logout of jeastwood75 since yesterday. I didn't see your email above until now. when I am in jeastwood75 on this computer, I have limited ability to do anything. The Finder as a 'place" (ie, I can't see categories across the top), nor does the Apple to allow me to go to user settings. I think jeastwood75 maybe a shell of my laptop and/or the mini adopted this user name somehow. I actually resorted to Apple support today and got an expert or advanced tech. After listening to me, he sounded like he didn't have a clue what to do. I asked if there were local Apple experts I could go to and got a list of techs that work with businesses. Not sure if this is useful, but I think the problem is but it seems to be an Apple problem mostly. I have attached a screenshot of what the Users on the mini look like. I no longer see two separate accounts (with separate images), but two of the same. However, I'm unclear if the second one is my MacBook Pro. Is there a way to find this out? The MacBook Prog login now bears the same identify image but I use a different password - the correct one for the MacBook - to login. Does this make any sense or mean anything to you? Any suggestions? Thank you for your continued help.

 

[Johan Elzenga]

You did not include that screenshot. A Macintosh always has at least one user with administrator privileges. If that user isn’t ‘jeastwood75’, then perhaps it is ‘janeeastwood’?

 

[clee01l]

Hello, I have been trying to logout of jeastwood75 since yesterday. ... when I am in jeastwood75 on this computer, I have limited ability to do anything. The Finder as a 'place" (ie, I can't see categories across the top), nor does the Apple to allow me to go to user settings. I think jeastwood75 maybe a shell of my laptop and/or the mini adopted this user name somehow. I actually resorted to Apple support today and got an expert or advanced tech. After listening to me, he sounded like he didn't have a clue what to do. I asked if there were local Apple experts I could go to and got a list of techs that work with businesses. Not sure if this is useful, but I think the problem is but it seems to be an Apple problem mostly. I have attached a screenshot of what the Users on the mini look like. I no longer see two separate accounts (with separate images), but two of the same. However, I'm unclear if the second one is my MacBook Pro. Is there a way to find this out? The MacBook Prog login now bears the same identify image but I use a different password - the correct one for the MacBook - to login. Does this make any sense or mean anything to you? Any suggestions? Thank you for your continued help.

One login ID is designated as Admin, having all of the power to manage everything. You click on the "Apple" symbol on the left of the menubar. From there you can log out of the currently logged in user. Then on the Login screen you can choose another login ID (‘janeeastwood’ ) to log in as.

Once logged in as an Admin, You can go to System setting s and click on Users and Groups to see the logins set up for this computer.

If None of this gets you any where, the folder 'jeastwood75'. may be an alias to your other computer on the network.

To verify that, right click on the folder 'jeastwood75' and choose get info. and make a screen shot of the part of the Get Info dialog that shows the "Kind".

 

[JEASTWOOD75]

You did not include that screenshot. A Macintosh always has at least one user with administrator privileges. If that user isn’t ‘jeastwood75’, then perhaps it is ‘janeeastwood’?

My apologies. Here is the screenshot. I just read Cletus's post about logging out of one user and logging into the Admin. This shows two versions of the same user. When I click the "i" for the top one, it has ability to reset password with Apple account and its User Name is Jane Eastwood. The lower one did not and its user name included my middle initial. Not sure this means anything, but it may indicate the lower one is my jeastwood75 user, and the upper one is the true administrator. ?