[X-Newbies] Re: file locks-can't save files

[Alex]

On May 31, 2005, at 11:24, Chris Morland wrote:

> [15058edwardm:~] morland% ls -ol

Chris, read again my instructions. You type ls -ol<blank space>, 
drag-and-drop the problem file, then press <Return>. You do _not_ press 
<Return> after typing ls -ol.

> [...]
> drwxr-xr-x  35 morland  staff    -   1190 31 May 07:36 Documents
> [...]

Your Home directory permissions are borked (I suspect you applied 
BatChmod). Those are incorrect permissions. In Terminal, do

$ ls -l /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj

to see what they should be on default items.

> [15058edwardm:~] morland% /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD\ 
> 2/\302\267Images/project\ area\ photos/hollywood/housing/ariange.psd

It looks like the name of the folder is "Images" preceded by the 
character middle dot (\302\267 is octal for C2 B7, which is UTF-8 for 
Unicode <0x00B7>). While not forbidden, it's not a good idea to use 
non-ASCII characters in names of files and especially not folders. They 
are a PITA to type in Terminal or handle in scripts, network transfers, 
etc. Some applications even choke on them, so try to avoid them 
whenever possible.

If this is one of the problem files, than it should teach us how unwise 
it is to make assumptions. Everything posted in this thread so far 
assumed the problem files resided on your boot volume, if not in your 
home folder. No wonder nothing worked. Do a Get Info on the volume, and 
check "Ignore ownership on this volume". See if that solves your 
problem.


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