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10.5: Repair a user/group Finder crashing issue
Authored by: engrav on Sun, May 18 2008 at 4:27PM PDT

thank you much, this thread fixed my stuff, I think

I appended myself into staff with sudo dscl . append /Groups/staff GroupMembership $USER as above

then (since I am a unix newbie) went back to System Preferences and set my GID to 20

which after reboot resulted in a new group engrav (501) which I deleted

and now id in terminal displays the right stuff and all is working (so far)

thank you