My Documents and these Folders are fine, but it's many Folders within Folders within Folders. Inside these, that need to be corrected. The final solution that worked for me in Yosemite OS X ver. 10.10.1 (thanks to old comm guy ): • In Finder, rt click on the damaged folder and choose 'Get Info' • In the pop up Info window: • At the bottom corner, unlock Sharing & Permissions • The following permissions should be set: • username set to Read & Write (if this is missing, add it using the + icon at the bottom left corner) • staff set to Read only • everyone set to Read only • Then and only then, click the gear icon at the bottom left corner near the + - icons. Choose: Apply to enclosed items. Vlc media player for mac 2018. • A t the bottom corner, lock Sharing & Permissions. Although several possbile answers were given I have one solution extra For me the standard Finder method with 'apply to enclosed items' did not answer my needs.

• File Permissions Mac

File Permissions Mac

Manipulating Files and Folders: cp - C o p y a file (or directory). Notes: The cp command does not understand all of the characteristics of files on HFS+ partitions, and will not completely copy files that have resource forks, type&creator codes, or other Mac-specific characteristics. How do i copy and paste rows in excel for mac. To fully copy such files, use the Finder, or the ditto -rsrcFork command. Hi, If I am the root user, how would I give a user access to all files and folders in a certain directory? I tried chmod 'xxx', but even with using 777, it only changes the directory permissions & not the files within it. You can change permissions for files in the same folder or for all files on any drive. Users with read access can view files, but not change them. Users with read and write access can view. You can do a Get Info on the drive, and set the permissions you want and then click on the button next to the '-' and select apply to all enclosed items. You may need to login as root to be able to do this.