ooooh!

matblack at mac.com matblack at mac.com
Thu May 6 07:09:04 PDT 2004


One more thing... I saw this post about changing flags... but am 
assuming that I don't really want to trash that Keyboard file...

>> I am having some issues deleting certain folders either from the 
>> finder
>> or from the CLI.  I get permission denied errors.  When I look at the
>> permissions I am the owner and have read/write permissions to these
>> folders.  However, I notice that there is a little lock symbol on the
>> folder and the locked box is checked off and greyed out thus I am 
>> unable
>> to unlock it. [...]
>
> Sounds like the "user immutable" flag was set for these folders. I 
> don't know how (or if it's possible) to change it in Finder, but it's 
> fairly easy in Terminal:
>
> $chflags nouchg [folder-name]
>
> where $ is your prompt, and [folder-name] is the name(s) of the 
> respective folders (you can drag-and-drop them to Terminal instead of 
> typing their paths). See also Apple KB articles ID 106272 and ID 
> 106237. For more details on the chflags command:
>
> $man chflags
>
> f
>
>
>
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