[GRASS-user] access to old mapset after reinstall of operating system and grass version

[Moritz Lennert]

On 15/04/09 02:47, Janet Choate wrote:
> Hello grass community,
> I unfortunately had to re-install my mac os x operating system, then do 
> a new download of grass, installing grass6.3 (previously running 
> grass6.2).  after the re-install, i put all my backed up data back on 
> the machine.  however, when i launch the new grass6.3 on my newly 
> installed os, i am unable to enter grass with one of the old mapsets, 
> permission is denied.  i have checked the permissions on these files, 
> i.e. i have read/write access to the PERMANENT and other mapsets within 
> a location.  but i can only start grass in that location by creating a 
> brand new mapset.  i want to reestablish my ability to open grass in 
> those mapsets that i created and that belong to me, and that i was able 
> to use before re-loading the data on the new operating system - anyone 
> have any advice on how to fix this?

How did you do your backup ? Maybe you are faced with the same problem 
as Raffaele in this post:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-April/049878.html
(and following)

Moritz