It can be done in terminal mode at a command line prompt: You need to be
one tree level above your backups folder before going into terminal mode.
Commands to do are: chmod -R 600 ./backups/* <cr> then do du -ch ./backups
<cr> and get the size of the folder and contents. If not small enough to
fit on a zip disk and that's what you have, you may need to run tar on it
to archive it and write that archive to a zip disk. Again in terminal
mode. The 600 says make that directory and all contents readable and
writeable and if it has execution permissions take them away from tht
folder and all of its contents. It's the -R watch the case upper this
time to do this recursively on all sfolders and files under backups.
hth.
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, hank smith wrote:
disk repair came out fine
the folder is 58 gig
my drive compasity is 74 gig
so I have plenty of space.
anyway to manually repair permission on my folder?thanks
Hank
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: changing file permissions on back up folder need help urgent
Please run disk utility and repair your disk permissions then try the copy
again. Though try a single file at a time. You may have too much in that
folder for your backup media's capacity.
