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sageenos

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Jan 5, 2002
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I just got my Powerbook G4 667, and I'm quite happy with it....except for one nagging problem. The file permissions in Mac OSX.2 are really bugging me. I can deal with most of it, but whenever I insert a cd into the drive it belongs to the system..not to me. Whenever I try and change the permissions so that I can burn cds it pops up with an error code 45. I don't burn that many cds, but I'm going to need the functionality sooner or later. Any help is appreciated ahead of time.
 
I'm using 10.2 as well, and you say it sets ownership of the blank CD to the system? I just inserted a blank CD and prepared it as a regular ISO9660 disc, and when I view the "Ownership & Permissions" info of the disc (ctrl-clicking the "Get Info" of the CD icon in the Finder), it tells me the owner of is me (read/write), the group is unknown (read/write), and others are read/write.

When burning a CD through the Finder with Disc Copy, the Finder first puts all the data that's going to go on the CD inside a temporary volume that's stored in /Volumes. I'm not sure that the actual CD itself has permissions at this point, as it has no filesystem and is not mounted. I'm not sure what OS X uses as the equivalent of /dev, so I don't know what kind of permissions the CD drive itself has (if any).
 
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