At 1:32 pm -0400 9/4/04, Andrew Stiller wrote:
One thing you _should_ be actively doing about permissions is repairing them. ...
Thanks very much for this advice.
You're welcome. Having to mess around with permissions repair and essential cache deletions aren't things users should have to do unless they're actively mucking about with the system at a pretty low level, but it's what we're stuck with for now: Sort of a more essential variation on the old Desktop-rebuilding theme of yore. Hopefully the installation waldoes will get smarter and we'll be able to put this behind us for automated updates and double-clickable installs.
Part of the problem is that whenever I update a file from Finale 2K2/OS9 to Finale 2K4/OSX, tight permissions are created for it, and I simply don't want or need that kind of security.
Could you be more specific about this problem? Where are the files you are reading and where do you put the files you write? What were the permissions before and after?
OS9 does not use permissions--at least not for ordinary document files. When, in OSX, I use FinMac 2K4 to open (and thereby update) a file that was created by FinMac 2K2 in OS9, OSX arbitrarily assigns a tight set of permissions for the original file (which had none when it was created), so that when I go to save the newly updated version, I am told I don't have permission to overwrite the old one. This is ridiculous and extremely annoying.
Correct. OS9 does not use permissions (in its default state, nor ever in the *nix sense), BUT OSX will have assigned permissions to those files and their enclosing folders (if they reside on the boot disk). Those permissions will be honored by OSX. (For other disks OSX's behavior will depend on the "Ignore..." setting for that disk.)
That is why I asked for specific information about the paths to the files. Without that information I can give only generic advice.
n.b.: This advice refers only to your data files. Altering the location, permissions or structure of your Finale folder may have unintended consequences.
The "best" advice is probably to put all of your Finale data files in an enclosing folder in your Home folder (~) and give the entire folder and its contents something like rw-r?-??- access (where you have to fill in the ?s for your own situation and the useful variations are almost endless).
You can create a simulacrum of this by putting all of your Finale files in an enclosing folder in your Home folder and doing a get-info on them (Command-i). Open the "Ownership and Permissions" triangle and set Owner/Access to Read & Write, Group/Access to Read Only (or Read & Write) and Others to Read Only (or No Access) and press the "Apply to enclosed items" button."
Now, as if that advice wouldn't be subject to endless caveats by *nix purists, I'll offer a variation that would get me flamed off of every *nix list on the planet:
Do exactly as I have described above, but place the folder that encloses your Finale data files in your root directory (one double-click below your hard disk icon).
Why do I make such a heretical suggestion?
(Aside the fact that the NExToids want to trap us into using the /Applications and ~ folders for everything and I will not abide that restriction on my _personal_ computer...)
As far as I can tell your work with Finale is the most important thing that you do with your computer. Placing your Finale data files in your root directory allows you to select them for work or backup with a minimal number of clicks -- just double-click on your hard disk and it's there; a second double-click gives you full access to the folder.
...About 1/3 of the time, when I boot up in OSX Panther, the OS immediately attempts to connect to the internet.
...
What I would do is install Little Snitch ...
It does seem to me though that the unwanted internet connections occur after I go online in OS9, then disconnect and reboot in OSX. Does this make any sense?
No. I don't see why booting in OS9 would cause a connection at the start of a reboot into OSX.
Are you booting OS9 from the OSX Classic folder or another installation? If it's the Classic folder, I can see why this _could_ be happening, but I cannot figure a reason. Can you establish conclusively that the sequence 'OS9 boot -- OSX boot' will always create a connection while alternatives like 'OSX boot -- OSX boot' do not?
Also let me know if Little Snitch gives you any clues.
-=-Dennis
btw: Not only do Time and Date and Software Update connect to the internet, Help always does as well.
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