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10.4 Finder Any Better at Handling Permissions of Enclosed Items?
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A particularly annoying shortcoming of the Finder has been its inability to deal with permissions when they are applied to a large number of enclosed items of a particular folder. When an operation of this kind is attempted under Panther, the static watch wait cursor appears and just sits there until moved, at which time it returns to a pointer without finishing the task. If you then go look at the folders or files that should have been changed, chances are good that only a few of them will have been. Does the Tiger Finder address this issue?
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I'm not on 10.4 yet. It really is annoying under 10.3 though, makes the permissions settings in the finder effectively useless since it silently fails often. I dunno, maybe it works for people already logged in as administrator, maybe the finder needs to be SUID, I have no idea.
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Yeah, so I'm not the only one bothered by this. I'm in my administrator account when attempting to do these chmods through the Finder, so that's not the cure. Just hoping it's fixed in 10.4, since I would not know how to apply chmod to enclosed items in the Terminal.
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Read this KB article from Apple. Mac OS X 10.2-10.3 do not fully support changing permissions recursively in the Finder.
It does work as expected in Tiger.
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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay
Read this KB article from Apple. Mac OS X 10.2-10.3 do not fully support changing permissions recursively in the Finder.
It does work as expected in Tiger.
Neato, TY, Art.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
Yeah, so I'm not the only one bothered by this. I'm in my administrator account when attempting to do these chmods through the Finder, so that's not the cure. Just hoping it's fixed in 10.4, since I would not know how to apply chmod to enclosed items in the Terminal.
type "info chmod" without the quotes.
The "info" command works for most *nix tools, and will show you a more or less explicit manual page. It supersedes the "man" command (e.g. "man chmod"), which will do the same thing.
the option you are looking for is chmod -R.
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