At 12:08 pm -0400 9/2/04, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Is there any way I can get rid of this crap? It's gotten very, very old.
At 05.22 -0500 04-09-04, Dennis W. Manasco wrote:
No. We're stuck with it, but
... (snip)
Partly true. On a boot volume there is a very good chance that you screw thinks up if you change permissions carelessly or without knowing the "rules", but if you get a hold of a second volume, like an external firewire drive ( or even a second partition <this I haven't tried myself, but it should work ;->) you can elect to keep the drive entirely without permissions. You do that by selecting the the disk icon, choose Get info [splat-I] and under the Ownership & Permissions: tab click the check-box in front of "Ignore ownership on this volume" (that pretty much says it all ;-)
The problems with permissions that Andrew describes in all probability stems from the time spent in OS 9. Files created in 9 will sometimes present themselves with root privileges in X, and in X - even though you are an Admin user - you can't overwrite root-files. So, if this is the problem, the solution is rather simple: Put all your folders and files in you ~Documents folder and set that folders permissions correctly. You can do that in Finder (get info) but that rarely work well. It works better if you use the teminal (not very user friendly ;-), but better yet is using a nifty little program called BATchmod.
Mind you, none of the above will help unless the disk itself is hale and hearty.
LAC
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