Greetings Tina, WOW removing all 'ACL's may not be the best thing to do, i.e. ---------------------------------------------------- Technically seen, an ACL is a list of individual rights which can be attached to a file system object. The ACL can either be empty -in this case, only the conventional POSIX permissions apply-, or it can contain one or more objects called Access Control Entries (ACEs). An Access Control Entry includes the following information:
to which users does this entry apply (this can be an individual user or a user group)? does this entry allow or deny access? which right in particular is allowed or denied, respectively? how should this entry be inherited from a folder to the contents of this folder? ---------------------------------------------------- So what you've done is made all files and application available to all users that can log into your platform. ---------------------------------------------------- If you were unable to make changes in the "get info" window then you were not logged in as the platform owner. As the owner has all privileges. Or sometime you may not be able to make direct changes but need to either add or delete one or more of those listed in the ownership listing. If your log-in name isn't listed then you need to touch the + button and add your name. If you are able to unlock the lock then you should have privileges to add users. The important thing is to make the "Ownership" of the locked disks the same as the disk that you are logged as that is your main access point. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø On Oct 6, 9:16 am, "Tina K." <penguir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2010/10/06 07:49, Walter Sheluk wrote: > > > Both of my External FireWire Drives were powered on and their icon's > > were on the desktop ( iMac/3.06GHz/Snow Leopard ) when i decided for > > some unknown reason to eject ( Command + I ) both drives to do a apple > > software update/installation. > > I just experienced something very similar only it wasn't my external > drives who's permissions got munged but my user folders - Desktop, > Documents, Downloads, Dropbox, etc… Strangely Get Info yielded either > "You can read & write" or "You have custom permissions" but no way to > change them in the get info window, and the ones that were allegedly > read write permissions would not let me actually write anything to the > folder. > > The custom permissions message was my tip off. I googled 'remove acl > leopard' or something to that effect (ACL= access control list) and > removed all acl's via Terminal. This corrected my permissions problem, > but not until I had reboot. > > FWIW, YMMV, ad nauseam. > > Tina > > -- > > iMac 20" USB 2, 1.25 GHz G4, 2 GB RAM, GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64 MB DDR > Power Mac June 04, 2 GHz G5 DP, 8 GB RAM, GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL 256 MB > PowerBook G4 15" Hi-Res DL-SD, 1.67 GHz G4, Radeon 9700 128 MB DDR -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
