finder copy permissions
i did a flat drag and drop copy of my home directory to a firewire drive for backup, and the finder asked me to enter my password, after telling me that i may need to enter an administrator password to make changes to john (which is my username and therefore the name of my home directory). does anyone have any idea why a copy would want to write to the original file(s)? maybe it is logging some info in .DS_Store?
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Originally posted by johnjosephbachir
i did a flat drag and drop copy of my home directory to a firewire drive for backup, and the finder asked me to enter my password, after telling me that i may need to enter an administrator password to make changes to john (which is my username and therefore the name of my home directory). does anyone have any idea why a copy would want to write to the original file(s)? maybe it is logging some info in .DS_Store?
Do you own the file? Select the file and hit Cmd-I and expand the Ownership & Permissions pane. This may tell you who owns it and what you are allowed to do with the file... m.
john@g5bachir:/Users$ whoami
john
john@g5bachir:/Users$ ls -l|grep john
drwxr-xr-x 76 john staff 2584 13 Feb 04:27 john/
john@g5bachir:/Users$