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Preventing Accidental Deletion of Folder and Files

post #1 of 5
10/8/08 at 7:58pm
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How do I prevent accidental deletion of Folder that keeps my financial data files under Mac OSX 10.5.5?
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post #2 of 5
10/9/08 at 1:06am
You could change the owner to system. This way every change you make to the folder, you have to put in your password just like the actual system folder.

Hit Get Info and change owner to system. You will likely have to relaunch the Finder. Also give your user account read-only permissions.

Basically set permissions to:

Owner: System
Access: Read & Write

Group: <your user name>
Access: Read-only

Others: Read-only or No Access

Having to authorize every change can be a nuisance though. If you back the folder up regularly, you should be ok.
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post #3 of 5
10/9/08 at 4:23am
Do a File > Get Info and then check the "Locked" option. This will prevent the file from being deleted even if you put it in the Trash and try to empty it.
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post #4 of 5
10/9/08 at 9:19am
start using Time Machine
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post #5 of 5
10/9/08 at 11:40am
Quote:
Originally Posted by bbwi View Post

start using Time Machine

Quoted for emphasis. Seriously. Buy a backup drive NOW if you don't have one.
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