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Remove 'ACL found but not expected' errors in Disk Utility
Authored by: nomulous on Oct 05, '09 04:08:47PM

Yes, as I pointed out they are relatively harmless in the normal sense of the word; they will not hurt your computer. But where it gets annoying is when a permissions repair takes 3 hours, with hundreds of errors, when it should only take 10 minutes. Also, "everyone deny delete" is not necessary if you know your way around a computer (which I'm sure most people here do), and just gets annoying when you really want to delete something and you end up having to Cmd-I, authenticate, and change all the permissions manually.

"ACL found but not expected" errors usually pop up when you changed the permissions on a file yourself in order edit them or take a look. I felt really stupid a while ago when I realized that while fooling around with Mac OS X password cracking I had left all my password files (e.g. 'master.passwd') openly readable by mistake. Removing ACL from files that shouldn't have them can sometimes be really important!



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