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Applications folder has become read only
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Hi there
I just noticed this when trying to install an app today. I dragged it to my applicatiosn folder and it said that it could not be modified. I had to hit authenticate and enter my password. I never had to do this before...If I do a get info on Applications and go to the Ownership and Permissions area it says "You can Read Only" and I have no way of changing that. Read only is greyed out. I'm logged in as the admin user so what's goign on?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2001
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If you click the disclosure triangle to reveal details of the privileges you will see a little padlock icon. This icon isn't just an icon that indicates the state, it is actually a button! (Apple's new user interface guidelines now say that cool look takes precedence over usability - after all it's the screenshots on the box that sell; when the user actually uses the product he forked over the money already).
Click this padlock button and you will be able to change the privileges settings back to the correct ones. It's possible that doing "repair privileges" in "Disk Utility" (in the Utilities folder) will do it for you as well.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2001
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I has this happen too. My question is what are the permissions supposed to be? Mine are set to :
owner: system
access: read/write
group: admin
access: read/write
others: read only
(this is on a machine that I think is right)
It seems you could do some serious damage if you change owner to "me" or daemon, etc.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Originally posted by ccrider:
I has this happen too. My question is what are the permissions supposed to be? Mine are set to :
owner: system
access: read/write
group: admin
access: read/write
others: read only
(this is on a machine that I think is right)
It seems you could do some serious damage if you change owner to "me" or daemon, etc.
These settings are correct.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Go into Disk Utility and use "Repair Permissions" on the drive containing the folder. My guess is that a poorly-made installer messed things up, but this should fix it.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Edmonds, WA, USA
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If repairing permissions doesn't help, try creating a new admin account to see if that account has write access.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
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repairing permissions did the trick
I can't believe I didn't think of that
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2003
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This has happened to the root level of my hard drive on each of my macs at least once. I'm pretty sure some installer I ran, well - SUCKED.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Mar 2001
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i think it was that iphoto update that they pulled (4.02) that screwed it up
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