[X Newbies] Disk Utility

[Alex]

On Monday, Jan 19, 2004, at 14:56 Canada/Eastern, Robert Ameeti wrote:

>> [...] Find won't search (or isn't supposed to search) directories for 
>> which the user has insufficient privileges.
>
> Admin does not have privileges for file in the System folder. That 
> would be owned by root.

First, don't confuse file privs with directory privs. Second, don't 
confuse ownership and permissions. Do a Get Info on your System 
directory. You'll find out that, although you don't own it, you do have 
read-only access (I assume you have admin privs); that means that you 
can list the files, but not change them. Any place where you have read 
access will be searched by the Find command. OTOH, if you have another 
user on your Mac, go to his Library folder and do a Get Info on it. 
You'll see you not only don't own it, but you don't  have any access at 
all, so you can't get a list of files in it. That directory will not be 
searched by the Find command.

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