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One possible solution for 'vanished' Mail messages
Authored by: 97mop on May 30, '06 02:43:14AM

One reason that you might be unable to write to a directory even after setting it to "chmod 777" is that the old read-only flag from OS 9 isstill respected in OS X. It is not reset by chmod - it's a different flag alltogether. To fix, Get Info for the file in Finder and remove the flag.

For those interested in the FreeBSD features Apple implemented into the UNIX underpinnings to support the old Finder flag, install the developer tools and play around with the terminal command SetFile (it's in /Developer/Tools, I think), or just Google for "user immutable".



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