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Moving folders in Finder without copying
I'm not the submitter, but it's pretty obvious most people commenting don't get it. As pointed out earlier, the GUI doesn't allow moves across owners or where permissions otherwise don't allow it. The Cmd key DOES NOT do it. The whole Cmd-key discussion is off-topic. It wouldn't have been off-topic five years ago, but whoever Apple brought in to work on the Finder after 10.3 probably wasn't familiar with Mac conventions and broke it. Or maybe the "flexible engineering team" concept shunted the developer off to another project before they could get around to fixing it.
Moving folders in Finder without copying
I see what you are saying with this, but the more I think about it, this seems to reveal a security problem rather than a feature. The main problem the poster is having is getting past user permissions not a file move. In UNIX all files are set with permissions. User folders are set to No Access for all other users on a system, and READ Only for the the root level of each respective user. With one user this is really a non-issue but with multiple users on the same machine the individual user folders are not visible nor read/write to each other user. This is a GOOD thing. This means that without administrator access and a knowledge of sudo in the terminal, users can not copy from or to other users folders on the same machine. This AppleScript seems to negate that without administrator access which would seem like a security bug not a feature.
Moving folders in Finder without copying
Who said anything about circumventing permissions or doing anything without administrator access? When required, a cmd-drag in Panther invokes an authentication dialog so that an administrator could organize things quickly from the GUI. Tiger and later, an admin in this situation can't move from the GUI at all.
Moving folders in Finder without copying
From the original post "So I figured I'd just move them from the old account folder. Only the finder wanted to copy the folders not move them. It would move the files. So I wrote an AppleScript script to force it to move the folders. Remember this is only for moving folders on the same partition."
Moving folders in Finder without copying
Don't ask me why the finders get info window didn't change the permissions like it showed it did. The recursive change took quite a long time too. I usually only resort to things like this when the obvious way fails. |
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