Re: Permissions BS

In article <101020081754149297%star@xxxxxxx>, Davoud <star@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Apple shielded us from much of Unix. Not because we're dumb, but
because most of us have other work to do. I don't find the shell to be
all that useful when I'm running Photoshop, e.g. If only the
permissions were transparent.

My home directory is on the boot drive in a Dual G5 running 10.5.5. I
have only one account on the machine; thus it is an admin account. I
have an external FW drive that I use to backup files and directories
from my home directory on the boot drive. (I also have RAID backup
available on the network, but that's not the issue here.)

I create a new folder and proceed to fill it with files. Letters to
Mom, let us say. I copy that folder from my home directory on the boot
drive to the backup drive.

So far so good.

Then I decide I should write another letter to dear old Mom. I save it
to the same folder in my home directory as the others. Then I say to
meself, "I've added to that directory. I should back it up so I won't
lose it. Never know when Mom might decide to sue me for something."
Drag it to the external FW drive.

"The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient
privileges for some of the items."

Get info on both folders. Permissions are identical. Get info on each
file in both folders. Permissions are identical.

Yes, I know how to do this from the terminal. If I wanted to do it that
way I would have saved untold thousands of dollars on Macs over the
years and kept my Osborne 1 and CP/M.

F**k you, Unix! They're _my_ f**king files on _my_ f**king computer in
_my_ f**king house. May every Unix geek and all of their children and
all of their friends rot in Hell, but ever so slowly. Have a nice day.

Davoud

I suspect the cause of the problem isn't the file you mention, but some
other file in the folder is the cause of the problem.

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