We have a server, shares courtesy of AppleTalk, containing Client folders that are locked in the old-fashioned MacOS sense of doing a Get Info on the folder and clicking the lock box while connected with a username /password that isn't distributed for general use*.
Under System 6, System 7, MacOS 8, MacOS 9, OS X 10.1, OS X 10.2, OS X 10.3, and under 10.4 up until but not including 10.4.6, that meant the Client folder could not be moved, deleted, or renamed, but files or folders could be added to the folder, renamed, or deleted, and documents within the folder could be edited.
Under 10.4.6, a Client folder locked in this fashion means nothing can be added, renamed, or deleted from within it. (Although once it contains a folder, items within that folder can be modified by anyone as long as that folder is not also locked).
Anyone hear anything about a bugfix on this one?
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* the actual creation and locking of these folders is actually accomplished by a set of terminal commands executed on the Terminal via AppleScript. The items that get dropped into them, however, are dragged in manually, in a process not reasonable to automate because it differs too much depending on esoteric variables.
(And no, it would not make sense to switch to the terminal and type arcane Unix commands to switch the AppleTalk lock flag to off long enough to drag in folders or files)
Under System 6, System 7, MacOS 8, MacOS 9, OS X 10.1, OS X 10.2, OS X 10.3, and under 10.4 up until but not including 10.4.6, that meant the Client folder could not be moved, deleted, or renamed, but files or folders could be added to the folder, renamed, or deleted, and documents within the folder could be edited.
Under 10.4.6, a Client folder locked in this fashion means nothing can be added, renamed, or deleted from within it. (Although once it contains a folder, items within that folder can be modified by anyone as long as that folder is not also locked).
Anyone hear anything about a bugfix on this one?
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* the actual creation and locking of these folders is actually accomplished by a set of terminal commands executed on the Terminal via AppleScript. The items that get dropped into them, however, are dragged in manually, in a process not reasonable to automate because it differs too much depending on esoteric variables.
(And no, it would not make sense to switch to the terminal and type arcane Unix commands to switch the AppleTalk lock flag to off long enough to drag in folders or files)