How can I copy something into the QuickTime folder in System/Libary?
I dont' have "permission." A) I'm the frickin' only user and thus Admin. I changed the root password to my Admin password with a trick I saw a long time ago in netinfo utility. C) I logged in as root in Terminal and cp would've worked but I'm trying to copy .component so cp can't understand it and says its not a file or something. Help! There should be a way around this permissions stuff in Aqua.
Comments
If common sense and good advice be damned you MUST put things into /System, go to terminal, preface your cp / CpMac / ditto command with 'sudo', and be prepared to enter your admin password, and use the -R flag as appropriate (cp -R myComponent.component /System/Library/QuickTime).
But again, unless you REALLY need to put it in /System and could explain why to another person, DON'T. /Library will work just the same and without terminal futzing. Honestly, those permissions ARE there for a reason.
If you must, go into the terminal and type "sudo cp <drag file from finder> /System/Library/QuickTime"
Barto
/Library/ <== User-independent. DO touch it when you're the admin and A) there are no other users the others users won't be annoyed.
~/Library/ <== User-dependent. Touch it whenever you want.
/Network/Library/ <== Touch it when you own the network.
Look at it this way... /System is Apple's domain to play in - you can be assured that anything they put in there is from an installer, can be reinstalled from their OS installer and updaters, and *you don't have to back it up*. Seriously. /System is completely and utterly user-maintenance free. No prefs are stored in there, nothing. (Frankly, I'd love to see it be a read-only subvolume so you couldn't have it corrupted even if the disk drivers went nuts.)
As long as you leave /System alone, it's completely trouble-free and a huge chunk of the installed OS that you never have to worry about.
Use /Library or ~/Library for stuff you install.
(And developers who install in /System should be shot, drawn and quartered, flayed, and hung... not necessarily in that order.)