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Enable write flag on Drop Box files via Folder Actions
Authored by: V.K. on Jan 05, '10 08:22:57AM
This hint is only relevant for Tiger and earlier. In 10.5 and 10.6 your Drop Box has an inherited ACL that gives you read+write access to everything dropped into the Drop Box. So there is absolutely no need for any folder actions there. If your Drop Box has no ACLs for some reason you can boot from the install disk and reset the ACLs on your home directory using the password reset utility. Or you can do it from terminal by running

chmod +a "$USER allow list,add_file,search,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,\
writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,file_inherit,directory_inherit" ~/Public/Drop\ Box


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Enable write flag on Drop Box files via Folder Actions
Authored by: slb on Jan 05, '10 01:28:37PM

More simply:

sudo chmod -RN ~



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Enable write flag on Drop Box files via Folder Actions
Authored by: renaultssoftware on Jan 05, '10 03:20:14PM

Well, the move-to-desktop part is new.



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