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.