[[APi]TheMan]

In the Finder's get info window, does anyone know the technical differences between "Apply to enclosed items" and a chmod -R? I have experienced problems in the past when messing with permissions on several hundred home directories stored on one of my servers that ended up being more of a pain in the butt than it should have. I would be tempted to say that "Apply to enclosed items" in the get info window only applies to one level below the directory currently being info'd, whereas a recursive chmod would go down and down as far as it could go. Anyone?

I'm not sure this is the expected behavior. How often do you only want to change permissions for files in one level down from a directory, but ONLY that directory and not inside other directories contained therein as well?

[tooki]

Frankly, most of the time the "Apply to enclosed items" button plain and simply doesn't work. You press it and nothing actually gets done. (It seems to only reliably work when logged in as root.)

tooki

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by tooki:
Frankly, most of the time the "Apply to enclosed items" button plain and simply doesn't work. You press it and nothing actually gets done. (It seems to only reliably work when logged in as root.)

Glad I'm not the only crazy one. Err wait... I'm glad I'm not crazy.

[Anubis IV]

Whenever I need to change a lot of permissions at once I tend to use a small app called Chop rather than the built in features. I've always found it rather useful.

[m a d r a]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
......does anyone know the technical differences between "Apply to enclosed items" and a chmod -R?......

what tooki said: "apply to enclosed items" is just a GUI treat for people who like pressing buttons. it doesn't actually do anything