[skeates]

Hi there.

I have an issue on a OS X 10.2.8 Server. I rencetly had to recover a hard drives contents onto another drive. I used Disk Warrior and it worked a treat.

Ony problem I have now is that the permissions are all messed up. I have tryed to reset them using "apple key i" and changing the top folder to what it needs to be then applying it to all. I have tried doing in through the Workgroup Manger and that did not work either.

What seems to happen is some files and folders change, but others are unaffected. You can go and change them all Manually, but there are a lot of files. about 70gb worth. So that would be very unafficant and time consuming.

Any one got any ideas on how to sort this problem out. Only way I can think of doing it is via the terminal using chown, but how would you do that to an entire hard disk and it's contents?

[Big Mac]

OS X Server 10.2 is very much outdated. If you're trying to rely on the Finder to reliably change permissions recursively, you should know that that feature didn't work properly until Tiger.

[skeates]

I guessed there was some sort of a bug in it. Any ideas how to do this via terminal or with something third party?

[hemant]

I've not worked with the OS X server but may be there is an option like "Repair Disk Permissions" in the "Disk Utility" app.

[Big Mac]

Repair Permissions in Disk Utility would repair permissions for system files. For other files, you can go the command line route with commands like chmod, cown, chgrp, etc.

[skeates]

I guess it will have to do the chmod. Just need to find out what the correct command is. Any one know of a third party app that can do this?

[Nivag]

If you don't fancy the command line route i've used BatChmod to do this.

[skeates]

Thanks.

I think that will do exactly what I need. Good tool to have on your side.