Andrew Stiller schrieb:
On Jul 26, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
You should not be manually changing permissions in OS X.
If I did not do so, I would be totally unable to edit any file or folder
ported from System 9, all of which come into OSX with permissions that
lock me out. It has been a royal pain in the ass changing all those
permissions ("Apply to enclosed items" does not do what it says), but
the end is near. In my experience, w.o manual permissions changing, OSX
would be totally useless.
Andrew, something is wrong if this is the case. Where do you keep those
files? I have never experiences a problem like this. You should keep
your OS 9 files somewhere inside the documents folder, then run repair
permissions.
Manually changing permissions is something that should only be done if
you know _exactly_ what you are doing.
The only time I have done this was with external harddisks, where I had
to change the permission of the HD to be accessible to all.
You should repair permissions using either Disk Utility or Cocktail.
If I do that, are all my carefully changed permissions going to be
defined as broken and put back the way they were? If so, then no thanx.
I don't know if this is going to change back your permissions, but even
if it does, you cannot live otherwise. Repairing permissions is one of
the things you simply cannot avoid. As long as you keep your documents
in your documents folder they should be accessible after repair
permissions. If they aren't something is wrong, and changing permissions
manually is not the way to repair it.
Not repairing permissions is going to eventually completely lock you out
of your system. You will get random crashes, strange error messages etc.
Johannes
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