[X Newbies] Ownership and Permissions on emailed files

[Bill Reburn]

Great Info Ian,

Now the big question - what did you bill them for the education ;-)  haha

It sometimes really amazes me - the lack of basic technical understanding
that people have - who use their machines for their 'daily bread'.

On 11/26/02 7:10 AM, "Ian Sights" <isights at swbell.net> wrote:

> I'm following up on my own post.
> Yesterday I drove out to the same printer having trouble with another
> of my files and found out first hand what the situation was.
> I had been getting messages through a sales rep rather than from the
> operator directly. ARgH!
> It turns out that they are downloading onto one machine and then
> immediately copying the files via their network to another workstation
> to work on them. All running OS 8.6.
> Something in the file causes the finder to say that the file can't be
> moved because it is copy protected. This is an SEA created with
> Dropstuff 6.5 under 10.2.2.
> He didn't think to double click the SEA and save the files to the other
> workstation, which worked perfectly when I tried it.
> A flaw in data transmission? A problem with OS 8.6? Dropstuff setting
> some bit that 8.6 sees as copy protection?
> It's not a huge deal since I've shown them a way to work with any files
> I might send in the future, but it is odd.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
>> On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 02:45  PM, Ian Sights wrote:
>> 
>>> Does any OS other than X check the Ownership and Permissions of a
>>> file? I emailed a file to a printer and they forwarded it to the
>>> people actually making the pens and I got the message back that the
>>> file was read only.
>> 
>> Did they try opening as Read Only, then using Save As... to save the
>> file somewhere else? In many cases this fixes the problem, particularly
>> where files think they are (or really are) a template.
>> 
>> -Mike
> 




Bill Reburn