On Aug 1, 2011, at 21:13 , Richard Peskin wrote:

> I have a volume where all the files have the following type attribute:
> drwxr-xr-x@  11 rpeskin  staff      374 Jan 13  2010 Snow Leopard
> 
> The "@" attribute is a real problem; it prevents write access to the file or 
> Volume unless admin authorization is supplied. I have no idea how this "@" 
> got there; the volume (a disk partition) was created in the usual way with 
> diskutil. How can I get rid of these "@" attributes?

I don't think the "@" decorator prevents any access by itself.  The "@" 
decorator in 'ls' output is explained in the man page (the 'file' has extended 
attributes).  To see what attributes are present, use the 'xattr' command (use 
"xattr -h" to see what the command does).

HTH

Justin

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