Get Permissions, or Suffer the Consequences!
OK, here's one for the designers out there... maybe it's just me, but when I create new Illustrator or Photoshop files for use by others (production artists and printers), I have found if I don't change permissions on everything I create, it becomes problematic for others to work with my files.
How can I permanently disable permissions tied to me for newly created files (or at least enable "everyone" to work with them instead of just me). It's a major, major pain in the hoozit!
Thanks, troopers.
How can I permanently disable permissions tied to me for newly created files (or at least enable "everyone" to work with them instead of just me). It's a major, major pain in the hoozit!
Thanks, troopers.
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So the permissions are actually set based on the permissions of the drive? Gawd, I hate this aspect of OSX... just one more bloody roadblock to efficiency.
The behaviour you are seeing isn't normal though. I exchange illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop etc files all the time with people. If it's people using the same machine, I could understand but with admin privileges, they can fix it easily. Maybe you need to do a permissions repair using disk utility.
When you do a default save, what permissions does a file get? Look at the get info window.
So the permissions are actually set based on the permissions of the drive? Gawd, I hate this aspect of OSX... just one more bloody roadblock to efficiency.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the permissions are based on the user, not the drive.
I trade files all the time, everyday and I never have permissions problems.
The behaviour you are seeing isn't normal though. I exchange illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop etc files all the time with people. If it's people using the same machine, I could understand but with admin privileges, they can fix it easily. Maybe you need to do a permissions repair using disk utility.
When you do a default save, what permissions does a file get? Look at the get info window.
OK, here's a typical 'get info' result:
Ownership & Permissions
You can: Read & Write
Details:
owner: (my name)
Access: Read & Write
Group: (my name)
Access: Read only
Others: Read only
The problem with this is---I need to be able to create files that are Read & Write enabled for "everyone"... in a production environment, I don't need permissions restricted. It's ridiculous to change the settings for dozens of files at a time.
Any ideas?
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the permissions are based on the user, not the drive.
I trade files all the time, everyday and I never have permissions problems.
It's not just "trading files", it's creating and e-mailing graphics files (Illustrator, Photoshop, JPGs, etc.) which become unusable to PCs and Macs in large corporate settings because they don't know how to change permissions on their side.
OK, here's a typical 'get info' result:
Ownership & Permissions
You can: Read & Write
Details:
owner: (my name)
Access: Read & Write
Group: (my name)
Access: Read only
Others: Read only
The problem with this is---I need to be able to create files that are Read & Write enabled for "everyone"... in a production environment, I don't need permissions restricted. It's ridiculous to change the settings for dozens of files at a time.
Any ideas?
It's weird though because I've never had the problem and my permissions come out just like that although group is set to wheel. I exchange files between multiple machines including PCs and printer people and there's never been a problem like this. Do you have a problem opening/saving other people's files or is it just that they have trouble with yours?
You can change the default permissions. The second last post on this site where others seem to have had similar problems links to a script to do it:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archiv...hp/t-9860.html
It's weird though because I've never had the problem and my permissions come out just like that although group is set to wheel. I exchange files between multiple machines including PCs and printer people and there's never been a problem like this. Do you have a problem opening/saving other people's files or is it just that they have trouble with yours?
You can change the default permissions. The second last post on this site where others seem to have had similar problems links to a script to do it:
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archiv...hp/t-9860.html
This sounds like a sensible solution, but I admit I'm terrified of destroying my computer if I were to carry out such brute force methods.
Apple should be taken to task for not offering an alternative for this absurd problem.