Re: Strange file system behavior
Re: Strange file system behavior
- Subject: Re: Strange file system behavior
- From: Greg Herlihy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:05:47 -0800
- Thread-topic: Strange file system behavior
Perhaps you should turn off file permissions on the portable hard drive
completely. Finder->Get Info-> check "ignore ownership on this volume".
Greg
On 2/15/06 12:02 PM, "Kevin Kicklighter" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> This may be the incorrect mailing list but maybe someone knows. All
> I'm doing is copying a Xcode development directory from my computer
> to another computer (with a different user name, etc.). Once on the
> destination computer I can't run xcode b/c my file permissions are
> screwed up. I use Finder, set all of the options to read & write and
> apply to enclosed items. That still doesn't work. I then go into
> the terminal and type "chmod -R 777 *" and that gets it to work.
> Sometimes, I even do "chown -R me:mygroup *".
> First question: why can't I do this through Finder ? and what do all
> of the non-unix people do out there to solve this?
>
> On the destination computer, after I've changed all of these
> permissions, I try to copy the directory to a portable hard drive. I
> get an error saying "One or more items can not be copied". All of my
> permissions and owners seems correct. Does anyone know what is wrong
> and how I can fix it?
>
> Thank you,
> Kevin
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