messed up computer (10.9.3) after migration to SSD - permissions or java problem?

[Guest roninsmurf]

thanks in advance for reading! I have a doozy: I moved my hdd to my optibay and installed a new SSD into my main hdd bay (mbp late 2011)

transferred data from hdd to ssd using superduper

so the ssd is now a clone of the old hdd (and in the same place as the old hdd) and the ssd is the startup

BUT

seems permissions are wonky?

not sure what it is. possibly java is a problem -- maybe via permissions?

 

here's the symptoms:

browsers/finder work great (faster with ssd)

but MANY apps just wont load or are wonky.

bluestacks won't load-- wont even get to the "loading" animation... (have re-installed numerous times)

metasearch on vuze won't work -- I see it for 7 seconds and then it vanishes.

other apps wont load -- the problem seems to be java related maybe? I'm not clear.

 

steps I've taken to resolve:

(all did nothin)

re-installed every app that wasn't working (ug! endless! appcleaner etc! hard to say how far they were uninstalled but seemed pretty thorough)

 

re-installed OSX 10.9.3

 

repaired permissions in a few ways on ssd

 

even "Reset Home Folder permissions and ACLs" via rebooting with cmnd+r

 

downgraded to java 6 (did nothin) then back up to java 7 (nothin)

erased all the java caches etc I could find

 

now I'm not really sure WHAT is going on here -- but my suspicion is that there's something funny about the superduper migration and permissions (everything was working when I upgraded to 10.9 a month ago)

I noticed: when I open a lot of folders, like utilities etc, they're read-only. huh? I don't think that was true, before.

to fix this I made the possible mistake of GetInfo/giving read-write privileges to everyone and "applied to enclosed items"

maybe that was dumb?

either way, after rebooting and repairing permissions, it seems the read-only structure of much of the new ssd is back

(I'm logged in as my main account as always -- is this not root? I'm never clear on root stuff...) (with mavericks, before the migration, I was able to run all these apps fine. but none of these odd "read-only" icons were showing up in my folders)

so maybe bad permissions -- or bad java -- is the reason apps won't connect to the internet? sometimes they crash when running animations.

 

ANY help would be so appreciated! already wasted many full days on this! ack! :o

 

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