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    Mojave Photos Permissions Privacy Issue

    Under the security & Privacy I noticed that Skype has access to my photos and I don't recall ever granting such access! Few days later I installed Firefox which also has access to my photos without granting access. For everything else, location, contacts, calendar, camera, microphone ,macOS...
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    System and other settings not locked

    It seems I am able to make changes in "System Preferences" as well as permission settings on the "get info" window of folders/files without first "unlocking" (clicking the padlock icon and entering my password). I thought this was something I always did in the past. Am I missing something? Is...
    • Schmactor
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    • access admin lock permission permissions security system preferences unlock
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS Mojave (10.14)
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    10.14.2 and Automation permissions

    After installing 10.14.2 I found that one of my scripts wouldn't run. This script had run for years. Eventually I found it was related to permissions. In the course of testing things I got a popup asking if I would grant permissions to the target app. I said yes and now the app works. This is...
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    How can I allow application to write new folder - Permanently

    Hi, I am using an application called The Unarchiver which unpacks files. When I mark 20 og 200 files for unpacking it asks for permission to write in the specific folder where the packed files are. HOW do I give the application permission to write on my HD everytime, in every place. In...
    • TaT_DK
    • Thread
    • osx permissions the unarchiver
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  5. Nessdufrat

    Permissions problems and kext...

    Hi guys, I'm facing a rather strange issue on my Mac Pro (2009, upgraded to the 5,1 firmware, if it makes a difference, running El Capitan 10.11.6). I recently added a hard drive coming from another mac inside it (actually, I cloned the drive from another mac running El Capitan, since the...
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    macOS Shared Folder Permissions

    Hello guys! I hope you'll be able to help me out with this thing. I'm trying to share different folders with different permissions for users. I am using an iMac with High Sierra with the Server app 5.4 and this is what I did; I set two 2 share only users "Jon" and "Simone". On a shared...
    • iMuhtaseb
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    • admin local macos permissions server shared sharing subfolders users
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS
  7. JessePinkman

    Safari's Access Control permission (custom everyone - ACL)in high sierra is missing

    Hi im having some strange keychain problems ever since high sierra and i was troubleshooting checking logs in console and i noticed they are coming when safari is open there are lots of keychain activites in console log like keychain opened and transfering keychains and keychain reference mode...
  8. rdav

    Photos Library, Share between Users?

    We want to share a Photos Library between two Users /Logins (on the same iMac) under macOS [10.13]. Have successfully moved the [Pictures/Photos.photoslibrary] from User1 to the Shared directory. And adjusted Permissions. No problem for User1, but the same Photo Library still can't be accessed...
    • rdav
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    • macos 10.13 permissions photos share
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Mac Apps
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    Resolved umask type behavior on user connected by network sharing

    My network scanner is configured to drop files into a well defined location on my MacBook and it correctly drops files there. Trouble is the default umask value seems to be 077 which means that when it drops scans then I need to do a sudo'd chmod to give myself (or the wife) permissions to the...
    • TiggrToo
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    • bsd permissions shell terminal
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  10. EdenBrackstone

    macOS Server 5.4 - File Sharing Difficulties

    Evening all, I've copied this post from an identical one I made on Apple's Support Communities here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/32660837#32660837 I'm afraid I don't frequent these forums but would appreciate any feedback or comments on the scenario I have documented below as it has...
    • EdenBrackstone
    • Thread
    • apfs bug failed connection high sierra high sierra (mac os 10.13) high sierra bug macos 10.13 permissions server server can't connect
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Networking
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    Reformatting SD card - Permissions Denied

    Hello! I am trying to put music on there new micro SDs I bought yesterday, but it won't let me. I read online that I should reformat them with Disk Utility, so I did and it worked with one of them but won't work on the other. I checked the permissions lock on the SD card converter and is is...
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    All Apple-App Permissions Changed to "Everyone" & Can't Fix it?

    Hello all, I noticed the other day that when I Get Info on any Apple installed app But none of my other apps are messed with. just the apple default software, things like Safari, DVD Player and so on all the way into my Utilities folder and changed any apple utility like Disk utility and so on...
  13. Thegoldenlion

    Removed Wheel Permissions from HD

    I removed wheel permissions from the entire mac partition of my hd. Resetpermissions through recovery terminal has failed. Hd is too full to complete macOS reinstall. Help.
  14. Russxdrums

    Time machine Woes.... error -50

    Anyone encountered this? Time machine fails. Info shows admin in read only. When I try to change permission to read/write I get error -50 The operation can’t be completed. An unexpected error occurred (error code -50).
    • Russxdrums
    • Thread
    • error -50 permissions time machine
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
  15. DeathGreeter666

    How I solve -36 error files permissions and transfer to HDD disk on Mac

    - I share my solution on how I solve / fix the ( -36 error ) files permission on my HDD external disk (with terminal - MacBook Pro 2009 boosted + El Capitan SSD - In hope you find the answer you seek here. Hi everybody. I have recently encountered an error with my external HardDrive Disk of...
    • DeathGreeter666
    • Thread
    • -36 error file won't transfer fix hdd disk mac macbook pro permissions solve
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  16. OldSchoolMacGuy

    External Drive Permission Issue

    Recently had my main SSD drive die and had to replace it. Got my previous setup restored but now have permission issues with the secondary internal drive in my Mac mini. Many of the files and folders on the secondary drive are incorrect and require authentication every time I want to copy...
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    Unable to Save Files on AFP Share

    We have a Mac server running on OS X Mavericks. This server hosts AFP network shares for our Mac users. Share permissions are administered via ACLs and Active Directory groups (the Macs are domain joined). Users are having issues saving to various folders within the shares. For example, if a...
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    problems setting permissions from terminal

    drwxrwxrwx 10 user staff 340 Jul 12 21:49 . drwxrwxrwx 4 user staff 136 Jul 12 21:49 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 user staff 6148 Feb 6 2011 .DS_Store -r-xr--r-- 1 user staff 36232 Feb 5 2011 lorem_ipsum.txt -rw-rw-rw- 1 user staff 55 Feb 5 2011 new_file.txt -rw-rw-rw-...
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    Are these permissions correct for the system drive?

    I just happened to notice that the permissions of my boot drive are unusual. They say: Name Privilege system Read & Write wheel Read only everyone Read only I am still using Mavericks, by the way. Is that normal? I also have a partition with Snow Leopard and there it says...
    • danqi
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    • hard drive mavericks os x osx permissions root
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
  20. KuhlTime

    The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have the necessary permission

    Hi there, i have troubles replacing two stock OS X images with some i downloaded. When draging both images to the folder a (Blocked) Sign appears near the cursor. I have seen that i need to open up the Information panel and change the permission of 'everyone' to 'read & write'. But then this...
    • KuhlTime
    • Thread
    • osx permissions system
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
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