[X4U] Read only Permissions, OS9 to OSX

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Tue Feb 8 02:44:35 PST 2005


On Feb 7, 2005, at 5:22 pm, Peter Krug wrote:
> ....
> SOME of the OS X users have problems.  When they copy the files from 
> the OS9 shared folder, the files come over as read-only.  The Database 
> wants to be able to write to these files, so it craps out and dies.  
> But on two OS X users computers, this does not happen, the files are 
> read and write enabled once copied.  Only the other 8 have problems.

Can you tell us what the permissions are on the folders into which the 
files are copied, please? I'd prefer a copy of `ls -lhd 
/path/to/destination/folder` from the terminal on both one of the 
troubled & one of the untroubled machines. This sounds like a classic 
umask issue to me.

Stroller.



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