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Daily Trick 7. Change Privilege

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Sometimes, without having enough privileges for a file, we will end up unable to save, edit, or even open it. Of course, we can easily change the privilege by using Get Info pane.

Problem arises when we want to change the privileges of a folder and hundreds of items inside. It would be time consuming to change the privilege one by one. The best solution is by changing the privilege recursively.

  1. Open Get Info pane of the folder
  2. Go to Sharing & Permissions
  3. After unlocking, find the little gear icon and click on it
  4. Select Apply to enclosed items
  5. Changes made later on will apply to folder & all items inside it

We can now say good-bye to the traditional, super-slow way of changing privileges!

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Linux Geek 

You almost got me thinking this bypasses Parental Controls.  You got me excited.

Gill 

Thanks sp much for this - you have saved me ages!

Alexander 

Hi. I would like to know how it would be possible to add the System user in some specific folder. Also, I have here, on my Macintosh root, an unknown user, and a wheel user on the Developer folder. Is it normal?

Alexander 

Hi. I would like to know how it would be possible to add the System user in some specific folder. Also, I have here, on my Macintosh root, an unknown user, and a wheel user on the Developer folder. Is it normal?

DB 

This does not always work, use batchmod, sometimes rolled down permissions just dont work in 10.5 download Batchmod.  
http://www.macchampion.com/arbysoft/Welcome.html
to always successfully change all permissions.

Clare Swindlehurst 

Thank you so much for posting this. I managed to make a folder and all it's enclosed items read only and was painstakingly switching them back one by one as I needed them. i just followed your instructions and now I can access all of the files :)

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