Bulk file permissions for 10.5.5

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in macOS edited January 2014
Forum newbie here go easy on me \



I was trying to install the latest xpac for WoW on my mini today, but the first two accounts were installed from a different user account (I am an administrator) Is there a way besides changing the permissions on each file one by one to give my self read & write access to all the files with in the WoW directory?



Please forgive my "Greenness"



~Twylight

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,309moderator
    You'd be better changing ownership. Open a terminal window (/Applications/Utilities/terminal.app) and type:



    chown -R <shortname> <drag folder here>



    In place of <shortname>, type in your user short name, which is basically the name of the home folder in your /Users directory. Drag in the folder to the terminal window for the last part. The command should look something like:



    chown -R jimmy /Applications/WoW
  • Reply 2 of 3
    yamayama Posts: 427member
    There's always BatChmod if you'd prefer a GUI tool to do the same thing:



    http://macchampion.com/arbysoft/Welcome.html
  • Reply 3 of 3
    Worked like a charm! TYSMVM!
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